Chips from a Calcutta Workshop

Comparative Religion in Nineteenth Century India
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-009-64319-1
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Gewicht: 250 g

Chips from a Calcutta Workshop explores the development and nature of comparative religion in nineteenth-century India. It focuses on the ideas and intellectual currents behind a range of thinkers who explored comparative religion in India, drawing on a variety of inspirations from Indian religions. Rather than emanate out of a European Christian set of politics as in the Western world, comparative religion emerged out of religious reform movements, including the Brahmo Samaj in Bengal and the Arya Samaj in the Punjab. With chapters on Rammohan Roy, Debendranath Tagore, Keshab Chandra Sen, and Swami Vivekananda, the book includes a re-evaluation of familiar figures alongside lesser-known thinkers within an intellectual history of modern Indian comparative religion.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bose, Neilesh

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Methods for Modern Indian Religion: Translation; 2. Texts for Modern Indian Religion: Canon Formation; 3. Institutions of Comparisons: Creating a Universal Religion; 4. Tensions in the Reconstruction of Indian Religion: Universalism and Pluralism; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Bose, Neilesh
Neilesh Bose is Professor of History at the University of Victoria. His research explores culture, religion, and social change in India, Bangladesh, and their many diasporas in the modern world. His published works include Recasting the Region: Language, Culture, and Islam in Colonial Bengal (2014), Labor, Law, and Wayward Lives: South Asian Migrations in Global History (2020), and India after World History: Literature, Comparison, and Approaches to Globalization (2022).