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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 nineteent...

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Main Author: Zastoupil, Lynn (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Series:Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history.
Subjects:
Religious Studies.
Asian History.
Cultural History.
Hinduism.
History of Britain and Ireland.
History of Religion.
Social History.
Civilization > History.
Religion > History.
Religion.
Social history.
Asia > History.
Great Britain > History.
Electronic books.
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Summary: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.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (276 pages)
ISBN:9780230111493
DOI:10.1057/9780230111493