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Much maligned and misunderstood in his days and forgotten thereafter, the genius of Keshab comes alive in these pages. The prophet has at last been redeemed. -- Professor Amiya P. Sen, Dept. of History and Culture, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, and author of Rammohun Roy: A Critical Biography Colonial India produced few figures as fascinating as Keshab Chandra Sen, the Brahmo reformer and apostle of East-West harmony. Stevens situates Keshab within the capillaries of transnational reform, highlighting a complex subjectivity pledged to the performance of both Indian and global identities. Keshab emerges as a prophet inspired--and constrained--by the binaries of his age. -- Brian A. Hatcher, Professor and Packard Chair of Theology, Tufts University Stevens provides a fascinating and timely account of Keshab's varied reception in both India and Britain. In exploring the mission of this contentious, and now often neglected, 'prophet', Stevens reveals the intractable nature of the problems Keshab sought to address, many of which remain with us to this day. -- Gwilym Beckerlegge, Professor of Modern Religions, The Open University, author of Swami Vivekananda's Legacy of Service Stevens scythes his way through the unkempt woods of time to remind readers of the pivotal role which Keshab played at a particular moment in history, both as a seeming arbiter of Indian destiny in close links with British colonialism and also as an individual whose fall from grace was nothing less than spectacular. -- Asian Affairs Journal

Much maligned and misunderstood in his days and forgotten thereafter, the genius of Keshab comes alive in these pages. The prophet has at last been redeemed. -- Professor Amiya P. Sen, Dept. of History and Culture, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, and author of Rammohun Roy: A Critical Biography Colonial India produced few figures as fascinating as Keshab Chandra Sen, the Brahmo reformer and apostle of East-West harmony. Stevens situates Keshab within the capillaries of transnational reform, highlighting a complex subjectivity pledged to the performance of both Indian and global identities. Keshab emerges as a prophet inspired--and constrained--by the binaries of his age. -- Brian A. Hatcher, Professor and Packard Chair of Theology, Tufts University Stevens provides a fascinating and timely account of Keshab's varied reception in both India and Britain. In exploring the mission of this contentious, and now often neglected, 'prophet', Stevens reveals the intractable nature of the problems Keshab sought to address, many of which remain with us to this day. -- Gwilym Beckerlegge, Professor of Modern Religions, The Open University, author of Swami Vivekananda's Legacy of Service

Much maligned and misunderstood in his days and forgotten thereafter, the genius of Keshab comes alive in these pages. The prophet has at last been redeemed. -- Professor Amiya P. Sen, Dept. of History and Culture, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, and author of Rammohun Roy: A Critical Biography Colonial India produced few figures as fascinating as Keshab Chandra Sen, the Brahmo reformer and apostle of East-West harmony. Stevens situates Keshab within the capillaries of transnational reform, highlighting a complex subjectivity pledged to the performance of both Indian and global identities. Keshab emerges as a prophet inspired--and constrained--by the binaries of his age. -- Brian A. Hatcher, Professor and Packard Chair of Theology, Tufts University Stevens provides a fascinating and timely account of Keshab's varied reception in both India and Britain. In exploring the mission of this contentious, and now often neglected, 'prophet', Stevens reveals the intractable nature of the problems Keshab sought to address, many of which remain with us to this day. -- Gwilym Beckerlegge, Professor of Modern Religions, The Open University, author of Swami Vivekananda's Legacy of Service

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John A. Stevens is a Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellow at SOAS, University of London. His PhD in History is from University College London.

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