The Brahmo Samaj and the Shaping of the Modern Indian Mind

by David Kopf

Book Overview

As the forerunners of Indian modernization, the community of Bengali intellectuals known as the Brahmo Samaj played a crucial role in the genesis and development of every major religious, social, and political movement in India from 1820 to 1930. David Kopf launches a comprehensive generation- to-generation study of this group in order to understand the ideological foundations of the modern Indian mind. His book constitutes not only a biographical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691642087
• ISBN13: 9780691642086
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 426 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.0" x 10.0"