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... defense of Vedic monotheism, Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay’s efforts at using modern disciplinary knowledge (history, philosophy, science, aesthetics) to formulate a system of Hindu ethics and to establish Krishna as a singular messianic figure like Christ or Buddha, or a later moment in Savarkar’s time...

... its sophis- ticated incarnations, as in the works of Bankimchandra Chattopadh- yay (1838–1894), to more recent banal discursive exercises like “Integral Humanism” by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) ideologue Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya (1916–1967), drew from this mode...

... Theory of Tolerance,” Seminar 521 (January 2003): 48–53. 78 boundary 2 / Fall 2011 and a revivalist and cultural nationalist movement (around which, vari- ously, Bankimchandra Chattopadhyaya in nineteenth-century­ Bengal, the Arya Samaj in Punjab and northern India, Madan Mohan Malaviya...

... perceived as popular religion by Brahmanical Hindus. Even more interesting, for our purposes, is the fact that these bands of thugs acquire heroic proportion as freedom fighters in the fiction of nineteenth-century novelist Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay (especially enshrined in his widely circulated Devi...

... to the situation of writers and intellectuals in many other parts of the colonial world. The cult of Shakespeare in nineteenth-century Calcutta, for instance, is well known, recorded in its own time in novels by such writers as Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay (1838–94). And this journey could be compared, for instance...

... at least, such works were seen as “a kind of false start, for both Michael Madhu- sudan Dutt (1824–73) and Bankimchandra Chatterjee (1838–94) had gone back to writing in their mother tongue, Bengali, to be acclaimed as the greatest poet and novelist of the century, respectively, in that language...