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Dust on the Throne: The Search for Buddhism in Modern India

Dust on the Throne: The Search for Buddhism in Modern India

Ober, Douglas

Paperback

Series: South Asia in Motion

BuddhismIndian & South Asian History

ISBN10: 1503635031
ISBN13: 9781503635036
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Mar 28 2023
Pages: 394
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Received wisdom has it that Buddhism disappeared from India, the land of its birth, between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, long forgotten until British colonial scholars re-discovered it in the early 1800s. Its full-fledged revival, so the story goes, only occurred in 1956, when the Indian civil rights pioneer Dr. B.R. Ambedkar converted to Buddhism along with half a million of his Dalit (formerly untouchable) followers. This, however, is only part of the story. Dust on the Throne reframes discussions about the place of Buddhism in the subcontinent from the early nineteenth century onwards, uncovering the integral, yet unacknowledged, role that Indians played in the making of modern global Buddhism in the century prior to Ambedkar's conversion, and the numerous ways that Buddhism gave powerful shape to modern Indian history.

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