Contents

pp v-vi

Acknowledgements

pp vii-viii

Introduction

pp 1-14

Part I - Rammohun Roy in History and Memory

pp 15-16

1 - Rammohun as Signifier

pp 17-43

2 - The Liberal Rammohun Roy: A History of Indian Intellectual History

pp 44-69

3 - Rammohun Roy: ‘A Mere Landlord’? Disputes, Debates, Disagreements

pp 70-94

4 - Imperial Emissary: Raja Rammohun Roy’s Fateful Passage to England

pp 95-110

5 - Rammohun Roy: His Songs and Contribution to Bengali Music

pp 111-126

6 - Rammohun Roy in Bengali Muslim Memory and History

pp 127-144

Part II - Rammohun Roy and Religion’s Reason

pp 145-146

7 - Rethinking Rammohun’s Vedanta: Some Contemporary Reflections

pp 147-167

8 - Rammohun Roy the Modern Vedāntī

pp 168-194

9 - Rammohun Roy, Celebrity Unitarian

pp 195-208

10 - Modernity and Monotheism: The Literary Moment of Raja Rammohan Roy

pp 209-233

11 - Reason and Rammohun Roy

pp 234-244

Part III - Rammohun Roy, an Argumentative Indian?

pp 245-246

12 - Between Advocate and Opponent: The Sati Debate in Colonial Bengal

pp 247-267

13 - The Spiritual, the Religious, and the Secular in Rammohan Roy’s Public Hermeneutic Praxis

pp 268-299

14 - Rammohun versus Kashinath: Gender, Scripture, and Custom in Early-Nineteenth-Century Debates on Widow Burnings

pp 300-319

15 - Rammohun’s ‘Moral Revolution’: Neo-prescriptivism and Normative Controversy in Early-Nineteenth-Century Kolkata

pp 320-344

16 - Rajopanishad: On Rammohun Roy and Translation

pp 345-359

Notes on Contributors

pp 360-365

Index

pp 366-378