TABLE OF CONTENTS (HARALD FISCHER-TINÉ, SUJEET GEORGE, and NICO SLATE), Introduction: Religion, Politics, and Development . Mapping the Sites and Domains of Indo-American Exchange, c. 1850-1970 Part. I: Religion and Culture 1. (BRADLEY SHOPE), A Gold rush, Steamships, and Blackface: The New York Serenaders in San Francisco and India, early-1850s 2. (SUSAN M. RYAN), The Sepoy Rebellion and American Global Ambition 3. (PHILIP DESLIPPE), Fakir: How a Word from India Moved Through American Popular Culture for Nearly a Century Part. II: Missionaries and Political Activists 4. (JOANNA SIMONOW), American Humanitarianism in Colonial South Asia: The Famine Relief of the American Marathi Mission in Bombay, 1896-1900 5. (HARALD FISCHER-TINÉ), 'One fifth of the world's boyhood': American 'Boyology' and the YMCA's work with early adolescents in India (c. 1900-1950) 6. (NEILESH BOSE), Taraknath Das: Race and Citizenship between India and the U.S.A. 7. (NICO SLATE), Socialism, Nonviolence, and Civil Rights: The American Journeys of Rammanohar Lohia Part III: Social Sciences, Development Initiatives and Technocracy 8. (SUJEET GEORGE), Constructing an Indian Sociology: 'Karimpur', U.S: Area Studies and Cold War Social Science 9. (PRAKASH KUMAR), The Development of Uttar Pradesh Agricultural University 10. (NICOLE SACKLEY), The Bankura Horse as Development Object: Women's Work, Indo-American Exchanges, and the Global Handicraft Trade (MARK REEVES), Afterword Bibliography About the Authors Index .

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The contributions assembled in this volume present cutting-edge research that examines the network of Indo-American interconnections over a wider time frame. The case studies stretch into the early decades of the American republic hinting at a longer history of mutual influence and exchange, beyond the registers of 'the American century' of globalization. By bringing together academics working across disciplines ranging from history to cultural and literary studies, comparative religion, political science and sociology, this volume thus foregrounds and historicizes the complex, multi-sited, polyvalent nature of the Indo-US encounter. At the same time, the book explore the possibilities of methodologically engaging with established categories-such as the nation, the imperial and Empire-and test alternative typologies to better understand this encounter. Taken together, our authors reconstruct the myriad ways in which Americans and Indians have engaged with each other through trade, diplomacy, intellectual comradeship, missionary evangelism and revolutionary fervor.

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