The Brahmo Samaj and the Shaping of the Modern Indian Mind

Kopf, David

ISBN 10: 0691031258 / ISBN 13: 9780691031255

Verlag: Princeton University Press, Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A., 1979

399pp. Boards have a very slight bend. Edges have light dust staining. Spine ends are very lightly rubbed. Jacket has small tears, and small pieces missing along the edges. Jacket has light creases along the edges. Spine panel has a couple damp stains and moisture rippling. 2" tear at the spine heel. Spine heel is missing small pieces and has many creases. Cup ring on front panel . Front panel has several small surface tears. Jacket has light soiling. Inside jacket has a couple of small stains and a cup-ring-bleed of dye. Text is clean and unmarked. 0691031258. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 24694

Inhaltsangabe:

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.

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Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Brahmo Samaj and the Shaping of the ...
Verlag: Princeton University Press, Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Erscheinungsdatum: 1979
Einband: Hard Cover
Zustand: Very Good Minus
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair Jacket
Auflage: First Edition.