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The Legacy of Vaisnavism in Colonial Bengal

The Legacy of Vaisnavism in Colonial Bengal

Authors
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year 13/12/2019
Pages 266
Version hardback
Readership level Professional and scholarly
Language English
ISBN 9781138561793
Categories Asian history
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This book offers a focused examination of the Bengali Vaisnava tradition in its manifold forms in the pivotal context of British colonialism in South Asia.


Bringing together scholars from across the disciplines of social and intellectual history, philology, theology, and anthropology to systematically investigate Vaisnavism in colonial Bengal, this book highlights the significant roles-religious, social, and cultural-that a prominent Hindu devotional current played in the lives of wide and diverse sections of colonial Bengali society. Not only does the book thereby enrich our understanding of the history and development of Bengali Vaisnavism, but it also sheds valuable new light on the texture and dynamics of colonial Hinduism beyond the discursive and social-historical parameters of an entrenched Hindu "Renaissance" paradigm.


A landmark in the burgeoning field of Bengali Vaisnava studies, this book will be of interest to scholars of modern Hinduism, religion, and colonial South Asian social and intellectual history.

The Legacy of Vaisnavism in Colonial Bengal

Table of contents

Introduction: Vaisnavism in Colonial Bengal: Beyond the Hindu Renaissance, LUCIAN WONG AND FERDINANDO SARDELLA;





Part One: Recovering the Legacy: How Vaisnavas Adopted Colonial Modalities; 1 The Afterlife of an Avatara in Modern Times, VARUNI BHATIA; 2 Theorising Bengal Vaisnavism: Bipin Chandra Pal and New Perspectives on Religious Life and Culture, AMIYA P. SEN; 3 Vaisnava Institutional Processes in Colonial Bengal, SANTANU DEY; 4 Baba Premananda Bharati: His Trajectory into and through Bengal Vaisnavism to the West, GERALD T. CARNEY; 5 Claiming High Ground: Gaudiya Missionising Rhetoric on the Adhikara of Worship, KENNETH VALPEY; 6 Directions for Future Research on Vaisnavism in Colonial Bengal, JOSEPH T. O'CONNELL AND AMIYA P. SEN;





Part Two: Contending the Portrayal: How Ethics Shaped This Religion of Love; 7 The Power of the Secret: The Tantalising Discourse of Vaisnava Sahajiya Scholarship, TONY K. STEWART; 8 Sahajiya Texts of Nadia: Beyond Reform and Revival, SUKANYA SARBADHIKARY; 9 Love of Woman: Love of Humankind? Interconnections between Ba ul Esoteric Practice and Social Radicalism, JEANNE OPENSHAW; 10 Divine Transgression: Devotion and ethics in Bengali Vaisnavism, KIYOKAZU OKITA; 11 Colonial Morals, Vaisnava Quarrels: Tracing the Sources of Nineteenth Century Anti-Sahajiya Polemics, LUCIAN WONG

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