Maha Bodhi Society

                The Maha Bodhi Society is a South Asian Buddhist society founded

               by the Sri Lankan Buddhist leader Anagarika Dharmapala and the

 British journalist and poet Sir Edwin Arnold. The organization's 

self-stated initial efforts were for the resuscitation of Buddhism in

 India, and restoring the ancient Buddhist shrines at Bodh Gaya, 

Sarnath and Kushinara.

Although some Indians had remained culturally Buddhist for centuries

 after the decline of Buddhist philosophy, they did not self-identify as 

"Buddhist". The Maha Bodhi Society renewed interest in Buddhism, 

and spawned the Ladakh Buddhist Association, All Assam Buddhist 

Association, and Himalayan Buddhist Society, as well as laying the 

grounds for the Dalit Buddhist movement.source Wikipedia.