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Book SynopsisAs 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-generation study of this group in order to understan
Table of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*List of Tables. List of Illustrations, pg. ix*Abbreviations, pg. xi*Preface, pg. xiii*Chronology, pg. xxi*1. Unitarian Social Gospel and the Foundations of Hindu Modernism, pg. 3*2. The Deification of Science, Humanity, and Reason: Brahmo Secularism, pg. 42*3. Identity, Achievement, Conscience: The Human Development of the Bhadralok Reformer, pg. 86*4. Family, Faction, and the Dilemmas of Political Reform under Colonialism, pg. 129*5. The Confrontation between Trinitarian Christianity and Reformed Hinduism, pg. 157*6. The Issue of Brahmo National Identity and the Rise of Cultural Nationalism, pg. 176*7. The Frustration of the Bhadralok and the Making of a Revolutionary Nationalist: The West Desanctified, pg. 187*8. Western-Inspired Brahmo Evangelism and the Vaishnav Spirit in the Mofussil, pg. 217*9. World Crisis and the Quest for an Ideology of Salvation: Keshub, Prophet of Harmony, pg. 249*10. Rabindranath Tagore as Reformer: Hindu Brahmoism and Universal Humanism, pg. 287*11. The Brahmo Reformation Diffused: Bengal's Legacy to Twentieth-Century India, pg. 313*Notes, pg. 335*Bibliography, pg. 357*Index, pg. 387
