1st Edition
The Legacy of Vaiṣṇavism in Colonial Bengal
Introduction: Vai¿¿avism in Colonial Bengal: Beyond the Hindu Renaissance, LUCIAN WONG AND FERDINANDO SARDELLA;
Part One: Recovering the Legacy: How Vai¿¿avas Adopted Colonial Modalities; 1 The Afterlife of an Avatara in Modern Times, VARUNI BHATIA; 2 Theorising Bengal Vai¿¿avism: Bipin Chandra Pal and New Perspectives on Religious Life and Culture, AMIYA P. SEN; 3 Vai¿¿ava Institutional Processes in Colonial Bengal, SANTANU DEY; 4 Baba Premananda Bharati: His Trajectory into and through Bengal Vai¿¿avism to the West, GERALD T. CARNEY; 5 Claiming High Ground: Gau¿iya Missionising Rhetoric on the Adhikara of Worship, KENNETH VALPEY; 6 Directions for Future Research on Vai¿¿avism 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 Vai¿¿ava 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 Vai¿¿avism, KIYOKAZU OKITA; 11 Colonial Morals, Vai¿¿ava Quarrels: Tracing the Sources of Nineteenth Century Anti-Sahajiya Polemics, LUCIAN WONG
Biography
Ferdinando Sardella is Assistant Professor at Stockholm University, Sweden. He is a Research Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, University of Oxford, UK.
Lucian Wong is a Post-Doctoral fellow of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies (OCHS), University of Oxford, UK and is Co-Director of the Bengali Vaiṣṇavism in the Modern Period Project of the OCHS.
