Chips from a Calcutta Workshop: Comparative Religion in Nineteenth Century India [Paperback]

Focuses on the history of religious reform away from communalism and nationalism to study comparative religion in nineteenth century India.This book delves into the cultural and intellectual history of significant figures in modern religious history of India offering a study of comparative religion in the nineteenth century. It also examines the North American relationship  from Transcendentalists to the Free Religious Association  to Indian intellectual history.This book delves into the cultural and intellectual history of significant figures in modern religious history of India offering a study of comparative religion in the nineteenth century. It also examines the North American relationship  from Transcendentalists to the Free Religious Association  to Indian intellectual history.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 Br
hmo 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.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.Neilesh Bose's Refining Religion: Comparative Religion in Nineteenth-Century Indial#µ