Keshab
Bengal’s Forgotten Poet
Price: 995.00 INR
We sell our titles through other companies
Disclaimer :You will be redirected to a third party website.The sole responsibility of supplies, condition of the product, availability of stock, date of delivery, mode of payment will be as promised by the said third party only. Prices and specifications may vary from the OUP India site.
ISBN:
9780199490844
Publication date:
01/10/2018
Hardback
324 pages
Price: 995.00 INR
We sell our titles through other companies
Disclaimer :You will be redirected to a third party website.The sole responsibility of supplies, condition of the product, availability of stock, date of delivery, mode of payment will be as promised by the said third party only. Prices and specifications may vary from the OUP India site.
ISBN:
9780199490844
Publication date:
01/10/2018
Hardback
324 pages
John A. Stevens
Keshab Chandra Sen (1838–84) was one of the most powerful and controversial figures in nineteenth-century Bengal.
He was the subject of extreme adulation and vehement criticism.
Yet he died with relatively few followers, his reputation in both India and Britain largely ruined. This innovative study explores the transnational historical forces that shaped Keshab’s life and work.
Stevens paints a fascinating and often tragic portrait of Keshab’s experience of the imperial world, and the ways in which he carried meaning for his contemporaries.
Rights: SOUTH ASIA RIGHTS (RESTRICTED)
John A. Stevens
Description
Keshab Chandra Sen (1838–84) was one of the most powerful and controversial figures in nineteenth-century Bengal.
A religious leader and social reformer, his universalist interpretation of Hinduism found mass appeal in India, and generated considerable interest in Britain. His ideas on British imperial rule, religion and spirituality, global history, universalism and modernity were all influential, and his visit to England made him a celebrity. Many Britons regarded him as a prophet of world-historical significance.
Keshab was the subject of extreme adulation and vehement criticism.
Accounts tell of large crowds prostrating themselves before him, believing him to be an avatar. Yet he died with relatively few followers, his reputation in both India and Britain largely ruined. As a representative of India, Keshab became emblematic of broad concerns regarding Hinduism and Christianity, science and faith, India and the British Empire.
This innovative study explores the transnational historical forces that shaped Keshab’s life and work. It offers an alternative religious history of empire, characterised by intercultural dialogue and religious syncretism. Stevens paints a fascinating and often tragic portrait of Keshab’s experience of the imperial world, and the ways in which he carried meaning for his contemporaries.
About the Author
John A. Stevens is a Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellow at SOAS, University of London. His PhD in History is from University College London.
John A. Stevens is a Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellow at SOAS, University of London. His PhD in History is from University College London.
John A. Stevens
Table of contents
List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgements ix
A Note on Terminology xiii
1. Introduction 1
2. Keshab in the Context of Nineteenth-Century Britain and Bengal 20
3. ‘Truth is not European’: Keshab on History, Empire, Other, Self 55
4. Spectacle, Difference, Fear and Fantasy: Representations of Keshab in Victorian England 84
5. Tensions and Transitions: 1870–77 115
6. The Cuch Bihar Crisis and the Search for Universal Religion 154
7. Conclusion: Universalism in an Imperial World 202
Notes 226
Bibliography 271
Index 290
John A. Stevens
John A. Stevens
Description
Keshab Chandra Sen (1838–84) was one of the most powerful and controversial figures in nineteenth-century Bengal.
A religious leader and social reformer, his universalist interpretation of Hinduism found mass appeal in India, and generated considerable interest in Britain. His ideas on British imperial rule, religion and spirituality, global history, universalism and modernity were all influential, and his visit to England made him a celebrity. Many Britons regarded him as a prophet of world-historical significance.
Keshab was the subject of extreme adulation and vehement criticism.
Accounts tell of large crowds prostrating themselves before him, believing him to be an avatar. Yet he died with relatively few followers, his reputation in both India and Britain largely ruined. As a representative of India, Keshab became emblematic of broad concerns regarding Hinduism and Christianity, science and faith, India and the British Empire.
This innovative study explores the transnational historical forces that shaped Keshab’s life and work. It offers an alternative religious history of empire, characterised by intercultural dialogue and religious syncretism. Stevens paints a fascinating and often tragic portrait of Keshab’s experience of the imperial world, and the ways in which he carried meaning for his contemporaries.
About the Author
John A. Stevens is a Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellow at SOAS, University of London. His PhD in History is from University College London.
John A. Stevens is a Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellow at SOAS, University of London. His PhD in History is from University College London.
Table of contents
List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgements ix
A Note on Terminology xiii
1. Introduction 1
2. Keshab in the Context of Nineteenth-Century Britain and Bengal 20
3. ‘Truth is not European’: Keshab on History, Empire, Other, Self 55
4. Spectacle, Difference, Fear and Fantasy: Representations of Keshab in Victorian England 84
5. Tensions and Transitions: 1870–77 115
6. The Cuch Bihar Crisis and the Search for Universal Religion 154
7. Conclusion: Universalism in an Imperial World 202
Notes 226
Bibliography 271
Index 290
