Chips from a Calcutta Workshop

Chips from a Calcutta Workshop explores the development and nature of comparative religion in nineteenth-century India. It focuses on the ideas and intellectual currents behind a range of thinkers who explored comparative religion in India, drawing on a variety of inspirations from Indian religions. Rather than emanate out of a European Christian set of politics as in the Western world, comparative religion emerged out of religious reform movements, including the Brāhmo Samaj in Bengal and the Arya Samaj in the Punjab. With chapters on Rammohan Roy, Debendranath Tagore, Keshab Chandra Sen, and Swami Vivekananda, the book includes a re-evaluation of familiar figures alongside lesser-known thinkers within an intellectual history of modern Indian comparative religion.

Author: Neilesh Bose
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 10/16/2025
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.7lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.53d
ISBN: 9781009643191