The Brahmo Samaj and the shaping of the modern Indian mind /
As the forerunners of Indian modernization, the community of Bengali intellectuals known as the Brahmo Samaj played a crucial role in the genesis and development of every major religious, social, and political movement in India from 1820 to 1930. David Kopf launches a comprehensive generation- to-ge...
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Language: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©1979.
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Series: | Princeton legacy library.
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables. List of Illustrations
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- Chronology
- Part I. Reformist Modernism
- 1. Unitarian Social Gospel and the Foundations of Hindu Modernism
- 2. The Deification of Science, Humanity, and Reason: Brahmo Secularism
- 3. Identity, Achievement, Conscience: The Human Development of the Bhadralok Reformer
- 4. Family, Faction, and the Dilemmas of Political Reform under Colonialism
- Part II. Nationalist Ambivalence
- 5. The Confrontation between Trinitarian Christianity and Reformed Hinduism
- 6. The Issue of Brahmo National Identity and the Rise of Cultural Nationalism
- 7. The Frustration of the Bhadralok and the Making of a Revolutionary Nationalist: The West Desanctified
- Part III. Synthesis
- 8. Western-Inspired Brahmo Evangelism and the Vaishnav Spirit in the Mofussil
- 9. World Crisis and the Quest for an Ideology of Salvation: Keshub, Prophet of Harmony
- 10. Rabindranath Tagore as Reformer: Hindu Brahmoism and Universal Humanism
- Part IV. Conclusion
- 11. The Brahmo Reformation Diffused: Bengal's Legacy to Twentieth-Century India
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index