Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Tables. List of Illustrations ix
4. Abbreviations xi
5. Preface xiii
6. Chronology xxi
7. Part I. Reformist Modernism
8. 1. Unitarian Social Gospel and the Foundations of Hindu Modernism 3
9. 2. The Deification of Science, Humanity, and Reason: Brahmo Secularism 42
10. 3. Identity, Achievement, Conscience: The Human Development of the Bhadralok Reformer 86
11. 4. Family, Faction, and the Dilemmas of Political Reform under Colonialism 129
12. Part II. Nationalist Ambivalence
13. 5. The Confrontation between Trinitarian Christianity and Reformed Hinduism 157
14. 6. The Issue of Brahmo National Identity and the Rise of Cultural Nationalism 176
15. 7. The Frustration of the Bhadralok and the Making of a Revolutionary Nationalist: The West Desanctified 187
16. Part III. Synthesis
17. 8. Western-Inspired Brahmo Evangelism and the Vaishnav Spirit in the Mofussil 217
18. 9. World Crisis and the Quest for an Ideology of Salvation: Keshub, Prophet of Harmony 249
19. 10. Rabindranath Tagore as Reformer: Hindu Brahmoism and Universal Humanism 287
20. Part IV. Conclusion
21. 11. The Brahmo Reformation Diffused: Bengal's Legacy to Twentieth-Century India 313
22. Notes 335
23. Bibliography 357
24. Index 387