The Brahmo Samaj and its Vaisnava Milieus: Intersections of Hindu Knowledge and Love in Nineteenth Century Bengal

1 Introduction
1 Bhakti in the Brahmo Samaj
2 The Premodern Roots of Vaisnava Bhakti in Bengal
3 The Brahmo Samaj and Its Vaisnava Milieus
4 Conclusion

2 Rammohun Roy and Debendranath Tagore: Between Advaita Critique
and Devotional Theism
1 The Advaitic Worship of Rammohun
2 The Devotional Intensities of Debendranath
3 Christian Missionaries and Their Brahmo Interlocutors
4 Conclusion

3 Rajnarayan Basu: Between Religious Intuition and Ecstatic
Vaisnavism
1 Brahmo Religiosity between Reason and Revelation
2 Brahmo Theism and the 'Essential Religion'
3 The Devotional Affectivities of Brahmo Theism
4 Brahmo Adoration of the Supremely Beautiful Lord
5 Conclusion

4 Bijoy Krishna Goswami: Between Caitanya Vaiṣṇavism and Brahmo
Universalism
1 The Vaisnava Pathways of Brahmo Devotion
2 The Brahmo Universalism of Vaisnava Devotion
3 Between the Brahmos and the Vaisnavas
4 Goswami as Caitanya Redivivus
5 Conclusion

5 Sitanath Tattvabhushan and Bipin Chandra Pal: Between Hegelian
Universalism and Vaisnava Devotionalism
1 Sitanath and the 'Intuitions' of Brahmo Devotion
2 Between the Brahman of Vedanta and the Absolute of Hegel
3 From the Upanisads towards Kṛṣṇa
4 The Vaisnava Devotion of a Hegelian Brahmo
5 The Brahmo Samaj and Its Philosophical Foundations
6 Conclusion

6 Sivanath Sastri and Pratap Chandra Mozoomdar: Between the Social
Gospel and Brahmo Devotionalism
1 The Social Orientations of Brahmo Devotion
2 The Universal Devotion of the Sadharan Brahmo Samaj
3 The New Dispensation and Brahmo Rationalism
4 Conclusion

7 Bankim Chandra Chatterjee: Between Brahmo Rationalities and
Vaisnava Affectivities
1 Religion as Revelation and Religion as Historical Construct
2 Bankim and the Ideal Krsna of Vaisnavism
3 Between Science and Self
4 Conclusion

8 Competing Visions of Hindu Universalism
1 The Brahmo Quest for Harmony and the Religions of the World
2 The Reconstructions of Caitanya Vaiṣṇavism
3 Ramakrishna between Brahmos and Vaisnavas
4 Between Traditional Modernities and Modernised Traditions
9 Conclusion