Book Reviews : SHAMITA BASU, Religious Revivalism as Nationalist Discourse. Swami Vivekananda and New Hinduism in Nineteenth Century Bengal, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 202

Abstract

or Swami Vivekananda were ’reformers’ in the accepted sense of the term of ’made valuable contributions to the Indian social and religious reform movements in the nineteenth century’. In the case of Vivekananda, it would have been important to draw a distinction between a liberal-reformist outlook and active participation in organised reform campaigns. And Sri Ramakrishna, one would have to say, does not fit into either of these categories. Again, contrary to what is claimed, this is not