PDF The Bhagavad Gita: Or; the Message of the Master Compiled and Adapted from Numerous Old and New Translations of the Original Sanscrit Text by Anonymous in History

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This book investigates Rammohun Roy as a transnational celebrity. It examines the role of religious heterodoxy - particularly Christian Unitarianism - in transforming a colonial outsider into an imagined member of the emerging Victorian social order It uses his fame to shed fresh light on nineteenth-century British reformers; including advocates of liberty of the press; early feminists; free trade imperialists; and constitutional reformers such as Jeremy Bentham. Rammohun Roy's intellectual agendas are also interrogated; particularly how he employed Unitarianism and the British satiric tradition to undermine colonial rule in Bengal and provincialize England as a laggard nation in the progress towards rational religion and political liberty.