Rethinking Hinduism in Colonial India
An Online Conference
4th February - 6th February 2022
Day 1
1.45-2.00 pm (GMT) / 8.45-9.00 am (EST)
Welcome
2.30-3.00 pm (GMT) / 9.30-10.00 am (EST)
J Barton Scott (University of Toronto)
What Do We Talk About When We Talk About ‘Modern Hinduism’?
3.30-4.00 (GMT) / 10.30-11.00 am (EST)
Break
4.30-5.00 (GMT) / 11.30-12.00 pm (EST)
Ishita Banerjee-Dube (El Colegio de México)
Bhakti and Bhaktas: The Many Lives of Bhima Bhoi and Mahima Dharma
5.30-6.00 (GMT) / 12.30-1.00 pm (EST)
Arun Brahmbhatt (St. Lawrence University)
Validating Vedanta and Authorizing Commentary in the Swaminarayan Sampradaya
6.30-7.00 (GMT) / 1.30-2.00 pm (EST)
General Discussion
2.00-2.30 pm (GMT) / 9.00-9.30 am (EST)
Brian Hatcher (Tufts University)
Religious Polities and Early Modern Hindu Sampradays
3.00-3.30 (GMT) / 10.00-10.30 am (EST)
Angelika Malinar (University of Zurich)
Driving Force or Remnant of the Past? Interpreting ‘Sampradāya’ in Colonial Debates on Hinduism
4.00-4.30 (GMT) / 11.00-11.30 (EST)
Indrani Chatterjee (The University of Texas at Austin)
Disappearing Dedications?: A Second Look at the Evidence from the Brahmaputra Valley
5.00-5.30 (GMT) / 12.00-12.30 pm (EST)
Break
6.00-6.30 (GMT) / 1.00-1.30 pm (EST)
Jonathan Duquette (University of Cambridge)
On the Margins of Modernity: The Advaita of Rāmasubha Śāstri
Day 2
2.00-2.30 pm (GMT) / 9.00-9.30 am (EST)
Carola Lorea (National University of Singapore)
From Caṇḍāl to Transnational Network: Sectarian Resilience and Untouchable Pride in the Bay of Bengal
3.00-3.30 pm (GMT) / 10.00-10.30 am (EST)
Srilata Raman (University of Toronto)
Inventing a Sampradāya: Lineage, Authority and Religious Transmission in Tamil, Dalit Śaivism in Colonial Modernity
3.45-4.15 pm (GMT) / 10.45-11.15 am (EST)
Christopher T. Fleming (University of Oxford)
Śūdra Asceticism in Anglo-Hindu Law: Scripture and Custom
4.45-5.30 pm (GMT) / 11.45-12.30 pm (EST)
Break
6.00-6.30 pm (GMT) / 1.00-1.30 pm (EST)
Timothy Dobe (Grinnell College)
The Modern Hindu Islamicate: Gandhi Between Sampraday and Silsilah
2.30-3.00 pm (GMT) / 9.30-10.00 am (EST)
Rick Weiss (Heidelberg University)
Apocalypse and a Marginalized Hindu Community in Colonial India
3.30-3.45 (GMT) / 10.30-10.45 am (EST)
Break
4.15-4.45 pm (GMT) / 11.15-11.45 am (EST)
Esha Meher (Yale University)
Courting the Divine: Image of the Deity and Legal Personhood in India
5.30-6.00 pm (GMT) / 12.30-1.00 pm (EST)
Malavika Kasturi (University of Toronto)
Caste, Sampraday, and Histories of Hinduism in British India
6.30-7.00 pm (GMT) / 1.30-2.00 pm (EST)
General discussion
Day 3
2.00-2.30 pm (GMT) / 9.00-9.30 am (EST)
Måns Broo (Åbo Akademi University)
The Haribhaktivilāsa and Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavism in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
3.00-3.30 pm (GMT) / 10.00-10.30 am (EST)
Tyler Williams (University of Chicago)
A Pothī Hiding in a Book: Tracing the Sectarian Outlines of the Indological Library
3.45-4.15 pm (GMT) / 10.45-11.15 am (EST)
Ved Patel (Emory University)
Changing Through Service: The Swaminarayan Sampraday and Discourses of Reform in Nineteenth-Century Gujarat
4.45-5.30 pm (GMT) / 11.45-12.30 pm (EST)
Break
6.00-6.30 pm (GMT) / 1.00-1.30 pm (EST)
Ankur Barua (University of Cambridge)
The Political Theology of Lala Lajpat Rai: Reconfiguring the Vedic dharma in the Arya Samaj
2.30-3.00 pm (GMT) / 9.30-10.00 am (EST)
Gil Ben-Herut (University of South Florida)
Debating the Printed Word: Vacanas and the Modern Turn in Vīraśaivism during the Late Colonial Period
3.30-3.45 pm (GMT) / 10.30-10.45 am (EST)
Break
4.15-4.45 pm (GMT) / 11.15-11.45 am (EST)
Julian Strube (University of Vienna)
Contextualising ‘Orthodoxy’ and ‘Reform’: Shashadhar Tarkachuramani and the Sarvamangala Sabha
5.30-6.00 pm (GMT) / 12.30-1.00 pm (EST)
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
6.30-7.00 pm (GMT) / 1.30-2.00 pm (EST)
Closing Discussion
Day 1
1.45-2.00 pm (GMT) / 8.45-9.00 am (EST)
Welcome
2.00-2.30 pm (GMT) / 9.00-9.30 am (EST)
Brian Hatcher (Tufts University)
Religious Polities and Early Modern Hindu Sampradays
2.30-3.00 pm (GMT) / 9.30-10.00 am (EST)
J Barton Scott (University of Toronto)
What Do We Talk About When We Talk About ‘Modern Hinduism’?
3.00-3.30 pm (GMT) / 10.00-10.30 am (EST)
Angelika Malinar (University of Zurich)
Driving Force or Remnant of the Past? Interpreting ‘Sampradāya’ in Colonial Debates on Hinduism
3.30-4.00 pm (GMT) / 10.30-11.00 am (EST)
Break
4.00-4.30 pm (GMT) / 11.00-11.30 am (EST)
Indrani Chatterjee (The University of Texas at Austin)
Disappearing Dedications?: A Second Look at the Evidence from the Brahmaputra Valley
4.30-5.00 pm (GMT) / 11.30-12.00 pm (EST)
Ishita Banerjee-Dube (El Colegio de México)
Bhakti and Bhaktas: The Many Lives of Bhima Bhoi and Mahima Dharma
5.00-5.30 pm (GMT) / 12.00-12.30 pm (EST)
Break
5.30-6.00 pm (GMT) / 12.30-1.00pm (EST)
Arun Brahmbhatt (St. Lawrence University)
Validating Vedanta and Authorizing Commentary in the Swaminarayan Sampradaya
6.00-6.30 pm (GMT) / 1.00-1.30 pm (EST)
Jonathan Duquette (University of Cambridge)
On the Margins of Modernity: The Advaita of Rāmasubha Śāstri
6.30-7.00 (GMT) / 1.30-2.00 pm (EST)
General Discussion
Day 2
2.00-2.30 pm (GMT) / 9.00-9.30 am (EST)
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) / 9.30-10.00 am (EST)
Rick Weiss (Heidelberg University)
Apocalypse and a Marginalized Hindu Community in Colonial India
3.00-3.30 pm (GMT) / 10.00-10.30 am (EST)
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) / 10.30-10.45 am (EST)
Break
3.45-4.15 pm (GMT) / 10.45-11.15 am (EST)
Christopher T. Fleming (University of Oxford)
Śūdra Ascetcism in Anglo-Hindu Law: Scripture and Custom
4.15-4.45 pm (GMT) / 11.15-11.45 am (EST)
Esha Meher (Yale University)
Courting the Divine: Image of the Deity and Legal Personhood in India
4.45-5.30 pm (GMT) / 11.45-12.30 pm (EST)
Break
5.30-6.00 pm (GMT) / 12.30-1.00 pm (EST)
Malavika Kasturi (University of Toronto)
Caste, Sampraday, and Histories of Hinduism in British India
6.00-6.30 pm (GMT) / 1.00-1.30 pm (EST)
Timothy Dobe (Grinnell College)
The Modern Hindu Islamicate: Gandhi Between Sampraday and Silsilah
6.30-7.00 pm (GMT) / 1.30-2.00 pm (EST)
General discussion
Day 3
2.00-2.30 pm (GMT) / 9.00-9.30 am (EST)
Måns Broo (Åbo Akademi University)
The Haribhaktivilāsa and Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavism in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
2.30-3.00 pm (GMT) / 9.30-10.00 am (EST)
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) / 10.00-10.30 am (EST)
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) / 10.30-10.45 am (EST)
Break
3.45-4.15 pm (GMT) / 10.45-11.15 am (EST)
Ved Patel (Emory University)
Changing Through Service: The Swaminarayan Sampraday and Discourses of Reform in Nineteenth-Century Gujarat
4.15-4.45 pm (GMT) / 11.15-11.45 am (EST)
Julian Strube (University of Vienna)
Contextualising ‘Orthodoxy’ and ‘Reform’: Shashadhar Tarkachuramani and the Sarvamangala Sabha
4.45-5.30 pm (GMT) / 11.45-12.30 pm (EST)
Break
5.30-6.00 pm (GMT) / 12.30-1.00 pm (EST)
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) / 1.00-1.30 pm (EST)
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) / 1.30-2.00 pm (EST)
Closing Discussion
