TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kopf,David
TI  - The Brahmo Samaj and the shaping of the modern Indian mind
T2  - Princeton Legacy Library
SN  - 9781400869893
AV  - DS428 .K66
U1  - 954 
PY  - 1979///
CY  - Princeton, N.J.
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Brahma-samaj
KW  - Intellectuals
KW  - India
KW  - Bengal
KW  - Brāhmo samāj
KW  - Intellectuels
KW  - Bengale (Bangladesh et Inde)
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Asia
KW  - India & South Asia
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Bengal (India)
KW  - Bengale (Inde)
KW  - Vie intellectuelle
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-385) and index; 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
N2  - 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-generation study of this group in order to understand the ideological foundations of the modern Indian mind. His book constitutes not only a biographical and a sociological study of the Brahmo Samaj, but also an intellectual history of modern India that ranges from the Unitarian social gospel of Ramm
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