Rethinking Hinduism in Colonial India Online Conference

Day 1 - 4th February

1.45-2.00 pm (GMT) Welcome

2.00-2.30 pm (GMT) Brian Hatcher (Tufts University)

Religious Polities and Early Modern Hindu Sampradays

2.30-3.00 pm (GMT) J Barton Scott (University of Toronto)

What Do We Talk About When We Talk About ‘Modern Hinduism’?

3.00-3.30 (GMT) Angelika Malinar (University of Zurich)

Driving Force or Remnant of the Past: Interpreting ‘Sampradāya’ in Colonial Debates on Hinduism

3.30-4.00 (GMT) Break

4.00-4.30 (GMT) Indrani Chatterjee (The University of Texas at Austin) Disappearing Dedications?: A Second Look at the Evidence from the Brahmaputra Valley

4.30-5.00 (GMT) Ishita Banerjee-Dube (El Colegio de México)

Bhakti and Bhaktas: The Many Lives of Bhima Bhoi and Mahima Dharma

5.00-5.30 (GMT) Break

5.30-6.00 (GMT) Arun Brahmbhatt (St Lawrence University)

Validating Vedanta and Authorizing Commentary in the Swaminarayan Sampradaya

6.00-6.30 (GMT) Jonathan Duquette (University of Cambridge)

On the Margins of Modernity: The Advaita of Rāmasubha Śāstri

6.30-7.00 (GMT) General Discussion

Day 2 - 5th February

2.00-2.30 pm (GMT) Carola Lorea (National University of Singapore)

From Caṇḍāl to Transnational Network: Sectarian Resilience and Untouchable Pride in the Bay of Bengal

2.30-3.00 pm (GMT) Rick Weiss (Heidelberg University)

Apocalypse and a Marginalized Hindu Community in Colonial India

3.00-3.30 pm (GMT) Srilata Raman (University of Toronto)

Inventing a Sampradāya: Lineage, Authority and Religious Transmission in Tamil, Dalit Śaivism in Colonial Modernity

3.30-3.45 (GMT) Break

3.45-4.15 pm (GMT) Christopher T. Fleming (University of Oxford)

Śūdra Asceticism in Anglo-Hindu Law: Scripture and Custom

4.15-4.45 pm (GMT) Esha Meher (Yale Law School)

Courting the Divine: Image of the Deity and Legal Personhood in India

4.45-5.30 pm (GMT) Break

5.30-6.00 pm (GMT) Malavika Kasturi (University of Toronto)

Caste, Sampraday, and Histories of Hinduism in British India

6.00-6.30 pm (GMT) Timothy Dobe (Grinnell College)

The Modern Hindu Islamicate: Gandhi Between Sampraday and Silsilah

6.30-7.00 pm (GMT) General discussion

Day 3 - 6th February

2.00-2.30 pm (GMT) Måns Broo (Åbo Akademi University)

The Haribhaktivilāsa and Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavism in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

2.30-3.00 pm (GMT) Gil Ben-Herut (University of South Florida)

Debating the Printed Word: Vacanas and the Modern Turn in Vīraśaivism during the Late Colonial Period

3.00-3.30 pm (GMT) Tyler Williams (University of Chicago)

A Pothī Hiding in a Book: Tracing the Sectarian Outlines of the Indological Library

3.30-3.45 pm (GMT) Break

3.45-4.15 pm (GMT) Ved Patel (Emory University)

Changing Through Service: The Swaminarayan Sampraday and Discourses of Reform in Nineteenth-Century Gujarat

4.15-4.45 pm (GMT) Julian Strube (University of Vienna)

Contextualising ‘Orthodoxy’ and ‘Reform’: Shashadhar Tarkachuramani and the Sarvamangala Sabha

4.45-5.30 pm (GMT) Break

5.30-6.00 pm (GMT) Shandip Saha (Athabasca University)

The Reinvention of Vaiṣṇavite Religious Identity in Nineteenth-Century Western India: The Vallabha Sampradāya’s Encounter with Colonialism in the Bombay Presidency

6.00-6.30 pm (GMT) Ankur Barua (University of Cambridge)

The Political Theology of Lala Lajpat Rai: Reconfiguring the Vedic dharma in the Arya Samaj

6.30-7.00 pm (GMT) Closing discussion