Author: Rammohun Roy (Raja)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Tracts and Translations by Rammohun Roy
Author: Rammohun Roy (Raja)The Life and Letters of Raja Rammohun Roy
Author: Sophia Dobson ColletPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
The English Works of Raja Rammohun Roy
Author: Rammohun Roy (Raja)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brahma-samaj
Languages : en
Pages : 1024
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Library of the Hon. East-India Company
Author: East India Company. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Rammohun Roy
Author: Amiya P SenPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 8184757824
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
Raja Rammohun Roy (1774—1833) was a great champion of liberty and civil rights in colonial India. He was also a true cosmopolitan who envisioned a world without borders. A tireless crusader for religious and social reform, Rammohun attempted a progressive reinterpretation of Hinduism and tried to improve the lot of socially marginalized groups such as women. Yet, in spite of his lofty public presence, Rammohun was a hugely controversial figure. He shocked the Hindu orthodoxy by his support to the abolition of Sati, offended evangelists by separating the moral message of Christ from the purely theological, and was often dragged into legal disputes over family property. By the time of his death in Bristol, he was as much resented as respected, both at home and abroad. Using relatively unexplored sources, this elegant and accessible new biography by Amiya P. Sen paints a fascinating portrait of one of the legendary makers of modern India.
A Catalogue of the Library of the Hon. East-India Company
Author: East India CompanyA Supplement to the Catalogue of the Library of the Hon. East-India Company
Author: East India Company. Library (Grande-Bretagne).Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Guru English
Author: Srinivas AravamudanPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400826853
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
Guru English is a bold reconceptualization of the scope and meaning of cosmopolitanism, examining the language of South Asian religiosity as it has flourished both inside and outside of its original context for the past two hundred years. The book surveys a specific set of religious vocabularies from South Asia that, Aravamudan argues, launches a different kind of cosmopolitanism into global use. Using "Guru English" as a tagline for the globalizing idiom that has grown up around these religions, Aravamudan traces the diffusion and transformation of South Asian religious discourses as they shuttled between East and West through English-language use. The book demonstrates that cosmopolitanism is not just a secular Western "discourse that results from a disenchantment with religion, but something that can also be refashioned from South Asian religion when these materials are put into dialogue with contemporary social move-ments and literary texts. Aravamudan looks at "religious forms of neoclassicism, nationalism, Romanticism, postmodernism, and nuclear millenarianism, bringing together figures such as Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo, Mahatma Gandhi, and Deepak Chopra with Rudyard Kipling, James Joyce, Robert Oppenheimer, and Salman Rushdie. Guru English analyzes writers and gurus, literary texts and religious movements, and the political uses of religion alongside the literary expressions of religious teachers, showing the cosmopolitan interconnections between the Indian subcontinent, the British Empire, and the American New Age.
Catalogue of the Edinburgh Unitarian Vestry Library
Author: Edinburgh Unitarian Vestry LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Ethics, Distance, and Accountability
Author: Shomik DasguptaPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190993014
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Rammohun Roy (c.1772-1833) is counted amongst the most influential intellectuals of Modern India. But even after a century of debate and enquiry, scholars are still not quite sure whether he was a consistent and articulate political thinker, or a man of intellectual compromise and paradox. This book argues that Rammohun was a consistent thinker who creatively responded to the political challenges of the East India Company's government in India by reading deeply into Sanskritic and Indo-Persian intellectual traditions to develop a political thought of his own. Rammohun's political thought was concerned with three distinct but related themes: i) the restructuring of the East India Company's administration from a distant and invisible government at London to Calcutta; ii) the importance of ethical practice in Bengali society; and iii) the legal and ethical obligation of the Company to be accountable to its subjects. Rammohun consistently stressed the importance of societal ethics and highlighted the consequences of the distance between London and Bengal on governmental accountability. A unity of thought can thus be identified in his work.