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Chips from a Calcutta workshop : comparative religion in nineteenth century India / Neilesh Bose.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Bose, Neilesh, author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
India--Religion--19th century.
India.
Religions--History--19th century.
Religions.
Religious leaders--India--History--19th century.
Religious leaders.
Religions--History.
Genre:
Electronic books.
Physical Description:
1 online resource
Edition:
1st edition.
Place of Publication:
Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.
Summary:
"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 Brāhmo 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"-- Cambridge University Press.
Contents:
Methods for modern Indian religion : translation
Texts for modern Indian religion : canon formation
Institutions of comparisons : creating a universal religion
Tensions in the reconstruction of Indian religion : universalism and pluralism.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge University Press, viewed November 19, 2025)
Other Format:
Print version: Bose, Neilesh, Chips from a Calcutta workshop : comparative religion in nineteenth century India,
ISBN:
9781009643184
1009643185
OCLC:
1539299329
Publisher Number:
CIPO000281553
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license

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