The Brahmo Samaj and the shaping of the modern Indian mind / David Kopf.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-385) and index.

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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.

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

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