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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 Rammohun Roy to Rabindranath Tagore's universal humanism and Jessie Bose's scientism. From a variety of biographical sources, many of them in Bengali and never before used in research, the author makes available much valuable information. In his analysis of the interplay between the ideas, the consciousness, and the lives of these early rebels against the Hindu tradition, Professor Kopf reveals the subtle and intricate problems and issues that gradually shaped contemporary Indian consciousness. What emerges from this group portrait is a legacy of innovation and reform that introduced a rationalist tradition of thought, liberal political consciousness, and Indian nationalism, in addition to changing theology and ritual, marriage laws and customs, and the status of women.Originally published in 1979.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Bengal (India) -- Intellectual life. --- Brahma-samaj. --- India -- Intellectual life. --- Intellectuals -- India -- Bengal. --- Intellectuals --- Brahma-samaj --- South Asia --- Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East --- History & Archaeology --- Brahmasabba --- Brahmiyasamaj --- Brahmosomaj --- Intelligentsia --- 294.5*96 --- Arya Samaj: Dayananda Saravati. Neo-Hindoeïsme: Ramakrishna; Vivekananda --- Bengal (India) --- -Arya Samaj: Dayananda Saravati. Neo-Hindoeïsme: Ramakrishna; Vivekananda --- 294.5*96 Arya Samaj: Dayananda Saravati. Neo-Hindoeïsme: Ramakrishna; Vivekananda --- -Brahmasabba --- India --- Intellectual life. --- Persons --- Social classes --- Specialists --- Hinduism

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In The Brahmo Samaj and its Vaiṣṇava Milieus: Intersections of Hindu Knowledge and Love in Nineteenth Century Bengal , Ankur Barua offers an intellectual history of the motif of religious universalism in the writings of some intellectuals associated with the Brahmo Samaj (founded in 1828). They constructed Hindu worldviews that were simultaneously rooted in some ancient Sanskritic materials and orientated towards contemporary universalist visions with western hues. These constructions were shaped by their dialectical engagements with three groups: members of the Bengali middle classes with sceptical standpoints ('Young Bengal'), Christian missionaries, and Hindu Vaiṣṇava thinkers. In this genealogy of religious universalisms, Barua indicates how certain post-1900 formulations of the universalist compass of Hinduism were being enunciated across Brahmo circles from the 1820s.

Brahma-samaj --- Hinduism --- Vaishnavism --- Universalism. --- History. --- History --- Bengal (India) --- Religion --- Universalism --- 294.5*92 --- 294.5*95 --- Salus extra ecclesiam --- Universal salvation --- Salvation --- Salvation after death --- Vaisnavism --- Vishnuism --- Hindu sects --- Religions --- Brahmanism --- Brahmasabba --- Brahmiyasamaj --- Brahmosomaj --- 294.5*95 Brahmo Samaj: Ram Mohan Roy; Devendranath Tagore; Keshab Chandra Sen; Sibnath Sastri; P. C. Mozomdar --- Brahmo Samaj: Ram Mohan Roy; Devendranath Tagore; Keshab Chandra Sen; Sibnath Sastri; P. C. Mozomdar --- 294.5*92 Vaisnavisme: Chaitanya; Bhagavata-purana --- Vaisnavisme: Chaitanya; Bhagavata-purana --- Christianity --- Bengal --- Fort William (India) --- Presidency of Fort William (India) --- Bengale (India) --- Baṅgāla (India) --- Eastern Bengal and Assam (India) --- West Bengal (India) --- East Bengal (Pakistan) --- Brahma-samaj. --- Hinduism. --- Religion. --- Vaishnavism. --- 1800-1899 --- India --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- Irreligion --- Theology