Keshab chandra sen biography of christopher

Vera Höke Individualisation in conformity: Keshab Chandra Sen and canons of the self The Brahmo Samaj, one of the earliest and most important Indian social and religious reform movements, shared with liberal Christian thinkers and like-minded philosophers a remarkable emphasis on the self. The ‘Brahmo Self’ was intellectually related to a complex tradition that was shaped bygd Puritan practices of scrupulous self-examination and faculty psychology, a philosophical paradigm concerned with the nature of man and the relationship between vices and virtues, faculties and will. Both traditions contained the notion of a self that could, and needed to, be balanced, checked, and thereby improved or developed. For the first twenty years after it was founded, the Brahmo Samaj presented itself as representing a particular strain of philosophy, namely the Advaita Vedanta. In this context, the relation between man and divin

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Keshab Chandra Sen (1838-84) was one of the most powerful and controversial figures in nineteenth-century Bengal. A religious leader and social reformer, his universalist interpretation of Hinduism found mass appeal in India, and generated considerable interest in Britain. His ideas on British imperial rule, religion and spirituality, global history, universalism and modernity were all influential, and his visit to England made him a celebrity. Many Britons regarded him as a prophet of world-historical significance.

Keshab was the subject of extreme adulation and vehement criticism. Accounts tell of large crowds prostrating themselves before him, believing him to be an avatar. Yet he died with relatively few followers, his reputation in both India and Britain largely ruined. As a representative of India, Keshab became emblematic of broad concerns regarding Hinduism a

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Christopher Isherwood

English-American novelist (1904–1986)

Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood (26 August 1904 – 4 January 1986) was an Anglo-American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist.^[1][2][3] His best-known works include Goodbye to Berlin (1939), a semi-autobiographical novel which inspired the musical Cabaret (1966); A Single Man (1964), adapted into a film directed by Tom Ford in 2009; and Christopher and His Kind (1976), a memoir which "carried him into the heart of the Gay Liberation movement".^[4]

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Isherwood was born in 1904 on his family's estate in Cheshire near Stockport in the north-west of England.^[5] He was the elder son of Francis Edward Bradshaw Isherwood (1869–1915), known as Frank, a professional soldier in the York and Lancaster Regiment, and Kathleen Bradshaw Isherwood, née Machell Smith (1868–1960), the only daughter of