The YMCA in Late Colonial India

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements

Introduction
Rationale of the book
Modernization or Modernity?
Note on Sources and Literature
Spatio-chronological frameworks and chapter previews

1. A mission to modernize: colonial administrators, nationalists, and religious bodies in South Asia (1870s-1930s)
Modernizing missions in late colonial India: actors and agendas
The Y's Passage to India: A brief institutional history of the Indian YMCA

2. 'Make them pure, fit and brotherly!': The Indian YMCA's welfare work for railwaymen and soldiers (c. 1904-1945)
Towards war work: early philanthropic efforts (1890-1914)
Entertainment, caregiving, and 'intercultural training': the association's service on the home front
Targeting the sepoy: the YMCA triangle on the battlefields of Europe and the Middle East
The contradictions of Y-philanthropy: issues of sexual purity and racial hierarchies
Summing up

3. 'Physical ministry': The Indian YMCA's sport and physical education programmes (c. 1900-1950)
In quest of strength and manhood: The place of sports and physical culture in British India
Preparing for the 'modern strain': science and physical education in the American YMCA
Working out India: American physical educators and their programmes
Somatic orientalism and Indian Eigensinn: limitations and modifications of the YMCA's 'democratising fitness' project
Summing up

4. 'One fifth of the world's boyhood' American 'boyology' and the Indian YMCA's work with early adolescents (c. 1900-1950)
Contours of the "Boy Problem" in the United States and India
The development of boys' work in the Indian YMCA
'The field of action': motives and methods of YMCA boys' work in South Asia
Summing up

5. The 'gospel of rural reconstruction': the YMCA's rural development programmes in South Asia (c. 1916-1955)
Historicizing rural development schemes in India
A Man with a mission: Duane Spencer Hatch and the Martandam Rural Demonstration Centre (MRDC)
From southern Travancore to southern Arizona: the regional and global circulation of 'low modernist' rural development knowledge
Summing up

6. Concluding observations: modernization without modernity?

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