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In a tightly woven narrative, historian of modern India Amiya P. Sen traces the shifting self-understanding of Hindus in the light of the many challenges posed by the British colonial encounter, offering an accessible yet analytically rich book on the birth and development of modern Hinduism, which will be of interest to students and the interested general reader alike.Change has been endemic to Hindu cultural life from its inception. It was n...

This is a short, critical biography of a distinguished Indian who, in many respects, contributed to the making of modern India. It explores the thought, ideas and work of Swami Vivekananda, analyzing why he remains relevant today.

This is a short but critical attempt at historically reconstructing the life and times of the Hindu-Vaishnava mystic, Chaitanya, as also of the ways in which posterity perceived and appropriated him and his message in a variety of ways. It is thus that I try and link a life to its complex but enduring legacy.

This work focuses exclusively on Rabindranath Tagore's sermons/addresses and miscellaneous prose writings on religion originally written in Bengali.

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Part of the 'Debates in Indian History and Society' series, this volume identifies the major issues within the history of socio-religious reform among Hindus in modern times and places the various points of debate in context, followed by readings from contemporary journals.This paperback edition also carries a small note by the volume editor addressing various criticisms of the reviewers, and critics.