DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY An Asian Enlightenment in Britain’s ...
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DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
An Asian Enlightenment in Britain’s Indian Ocean
Part II: Discoveries across Distance
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Image 1: Front page of Lat Pau Chinese newspaper,
published in Singapore from 1880
Image 2: Illustration of a Sufi saint,
the life stories of which became a
staple of Bombay’s thriving 19th
century Muslim book trade
Image 3: 19th century illustration of the Venkateswara
Temple in India, which was celebrated in Tamil devotional
pamphlets published in Ceylon.
Image 4: The Ceylonese Buddhist reformer
Anagarika Dharmapala, who edited the Maha
Bodhi and United Buddhist World (established
1892)
Images 5 and 6: Advertisement and cover page for Dharmapala’s Maha Bodhi and
United Buddhist World journal
Image 7: Contributors to the Stri Dharma magazine of the Women’s
India Association included the activists (clockwise from left) Dr
Muthulakshmi Reddy, Margaret Cousins, Kamaldevi Chattopadhyay
and Annie Besant