?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> ?xml-model href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SAA-SDT/EAD3/master/ead3.rng" type="application/xml" schematypens="http://relaxng.org/ns/structure/1.0"?> MS569 Balkrishna Govind Gokhale Papers Processed by Elizabeth Crispino Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives PO Box 7777 Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27109 http://zsr.wfu.edu/special/ 2023 April MS569 Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives English L/languagedeclaration> dacs Describing Archives: A Content Standard completed 2023-04-26T11:20:57-04:00 ArchivesSpace v3.0.1 This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on Wednesday April 26, 2023 at 11:20 Balkrishna Govind Gokhale Papers MS569 Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives English 0.84 Linear Feet 2 document boxes 1953 2005 circa 1953-2005 Balkrishna Govind Gokhale was the first professor (1960-1990) in Wake Forest University's Asian Studies program. Materials in this collection include Gokhale's scholarly articles, a obituary, and bibliography drafts. Biographical Note Balkrishna Govind Gokhale was born in Dwarka, India, on September 4, 1919. Gokhale graduated with honors from the University of Bombay (now the University of Mumbai) in 1939. He earned master's (1941) and doctoral (1946) degrees from the University of Bombay. After teaching at St. Xavier's College in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), India, from 1942-1954, Gokhale moved to the United States with his wife and two daughters. In the U.S., Gokhale taught at Bowdoin College (1954), Oberlin College (1955-1956), and the University of Washington, Seattle (1959-1960). Gokhale was then recruited to Wake Forest University to begin the Asian Studies program. At the time, he was the first non-Christian faculty member at WFU. He remained at the University from 1960 until 1990, teaching courses that covered Southeast Asian history, the country of India, and the Hindi language. Gokhale was also the author of 17 books, including and , and over 100 articles and helped build the Z. Smith Reynolds Library's Asian Collection. In his spare time, Gokhale taught himself Dutch, Portuguese, Arabic, and Persian. Gokhale died on August 11, 2005. Collection Overview Materials in this collection include scholarly articles by Balkrishna Govid Gokhale, a obituary, a biography, and bibliography drafts. Items are listed in alphabetical order, with biographical information at the beginning of the collection. Preferred Citation Balkrishna Govind Gokhale Papers (MS569), Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA. Access Restrictions Collection is open for use. Copyright Notice The nature of the WFU Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives means that copyright or other information about restrictions may be difficult or even impossible to determine despite reasonable efforts. 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Gokhale biography and obituary circa 2005 2 2 "Aesthetic Ideas in Early Buddhism" articles circa 1974 1 7 "Āloko Udapādi: The Imagery of Illumination in Early Buddhist Literature" article undated 2 23 "Anagarika Dharmapala: Toward Modernity Through Tradition in Ceylon" article circa 1973 2 10 "Animal Symbolism in Early Buddhist Literature and Art" article 1974 1 9 "Bhakti in Early Buddhism" article circa 1980 1 6 Bibliography drafts undated 1 10 "The Brāhmaṇas in Early Buddhist Literature" articles circa 1970 2 4 "The Buddha and History" article circa 1980 2 21 "The Buddha's 'Dying Consciousness'" article circa 1978 2 22 "Buddhism in the Gupta Age" article 1983 2 9 "The Concept of Disorder in Early Buddhist Political Thought" articles circa 1984 2 16 "Dhamma as a Political Concept in Early Buddhism" article 1968 2 13 "Dhammiko Dhammarājā: A Study in Buddhist Constitutional Concepts" article 1953 2 12 "Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar: Rebel Against Hindu Tradition" article circa 1976 2 11 "Early Buddhism and the Brāhmaṇas" articles circa 1980 2 5 "Early Buddhism and the Urban Revolution" article 1982 2 8 "Early Buddhist Kingship" article circa 1966 2 14 "The Early Buddhist Elite" articles circa 1965 2 3 "The Early Buddhist View of the State" article circa 1969 2 15 "Historical Consciousness in Theravada Buddhist Thought" article undated 2 19 "The Image World of the Dhammapada" articles circa 1954 1 1 "The Image-World of the Nikāyas" articles circa 1980 1 3 "The Image-World of the Thera-Theri-Gāthās" articles 1976 1 4 "The Merchant in Ancient India" article 1977 2 7 "The Miraculous, Superhuman, and Supernormal in Early Buddhism" articles circa 1986 1 2 "The Mithuna Motif in Buddhist Art" article circa 1976 1 8 "On Buddhist Historiography" article circa 1979 2 20 "On the Buddhist Concept of Attha" articles circa 1984 2 17 "The Samgha and the Laity" articles 1981 2 6 "Some Obscure Cults" articles 1956 1 5 , chapters I-VI undated 1 11 , chapters VII-XIV undated 1 12 , chapters XV-XIIX undated 1 13 , chapters XIX-XXII undated 1 14 , chapters XXIII-XXVII undated 1 15 , chapters XXVIII-XXX undated 2 1 "The Theravada-Buddhist View of History" articles circa 1965 2 18