Religion, Mysticism, and Transcultural Entanglements in Modern South Asia: Towards a Global Religious History

Preface
Acknowledgements
Note on Translation, Transliteration, and Glossary
Contents
List of Images
Chapter 1: Mystics, Scholars, and Spiritual Cosmopolitans in Modern South Asia: An Introduction
	Transculturality, Cosmopolitanism, and the Worlds of Scholarship and Affect in Global Religious History
	Tradition, Modernity, and Svarāja Redux: Lineages of an ‘Indian’ Civilisation
	Outline of Chapters
Chapter 2: The Quest for ‘medieval mysticism’ and Vaiṣṇava Vedānta: The Tagore-Sen-Underhill Circle, and the Chicago Moment of Mahanambrata Brahmachari
	Finding the ‘Living History of India’: The Bāuls, Kabir, and an Indian Mode of Sādhanā
	Gurus, Yogı̄s, and Religious Congresses
	Conclusion
Chapter 3: Islam, Yoga, and Sāmyavāda: Allama Iqbal and Kazi Nazrul Islam on Nationalism, Metaphysics, and Existence
	The Tyranny of Scholars and Iqbal’s Journey to Infinitude
	From the Metaphysics of the Brāhmaṇas and the Persians Through ‘Faith’, ‘Thought’, and ‘Discovery’: Reconstructing Religious Thought à la Iqbal
	Kazi Nazrul Islam: The ‘Rebel Poet’ and His Mystics
	Finding ‘Adṛśya Sārathi’ and ‘Param-Sundara’ Āllāh
	Conclusion
Chapter 4: Theosophists, Yogı̄s, and Pacifism in Troubled Times: Bhagavan Das, Nicholas Roerich, and Gopinath Kaviraj on Humanity and Realms of Transcendence
	The Inner World Revisited: Pfleiderer Contra James Contra Tiele
	From the Science of Peace Through Agni Yoga and Pax Cultura: Bhagavan Das, Nicholas Roerich, and Aspects of Theosophy in the Twentieth Century
	Akhaṇḍamahāyoga and Gopinath Kaviraj’s Yoga of the Future
	Conclusion
Chapter 5: Pilgrims and Their Cosmopolitan Itineraries: The Many Worlds of Subhas Chandra Bose, Dilip Kumar Roy, and Yogi Krishnaprem
	Ātmanamokṣārthaṃ Jagaddhitāya Ca: The Swamı̄, the Guru, and the Problem of Hita
	Maṇtra Śakti, and Social and Political Action: Rereading Bose, Roy, and Krishnaprem
	Conclusion
Chapter 6: From Interwar Idealism Through ‘Perennial Philosophy’: Concluding Reflections
	The Esoteric and the Occult in Global Religious Discourse: A Closing Evaluation
	Reason, Idealism, and Perennialism: Some Final Impressions
Index