91 – Transversality and Transcultural Imaginaries in South Asian Intellectual History
The panel aims to highlight various transcultural and multilingual ideas that have shaped contemporary South Asian society. It seeks to explore the need to examine the cultural plurality of pre-modern and early modern South Asia. The panel further seeks to discuss and therefore seeks presentations which deal with various modalities in which gender informs and underpins the formation of ideas, narratives, and conceptualization of roles, especially within South Asian religious-spiritual imaginaries. We particularly invite presentations that underscore the importance of lesser-known agents, texts and geographical locations in adding textures to the
tapestry of twentieth century metanarratives like Pan-Buddhism, Pan-Islamism, and Pan-Asian messianic aspirations and evaluate how transversal lenses help us mediate these complexities of thought-overlaps.