DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY

An Asian Enlightenment in Britain’s Indian Ocean

Part II: Discoveries across Distance

Related Images

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