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The Brahmo Somaj. Keshub Chunder Sen in England

1915

When a Christian audience knew that a Hindoo was strenuously advocating the abolition of caste that he aimed at the extermintion of idolatry and when they thought of the sacrifices of Juggernaut the slavery of women the barbarities of the Suttee and all the murderous practices and supersttions of that country he need go no farther to account for the interest which welcomed him upon th [...] The more the condition of India was properly understood and appreciated here the more he believed would the British people be in a position to do justice to the milions of people committed to their care and the more earnestly would they try to remedy those serious defects which at present existed in the government of that country and to introduce important and urgent -reforms. [...] Noiselessly and silently flowed in India the stream of national reformation—now and then it assumed awful propotions and directed its great force and power to sweep away the accumulated errors and idolatry of ages and the embankments of social corruption—and yet after a time subsiding and quietly and silently resuming its course—a stream that carried with it all that was ood in the east and [...] His would be a voice of instruction as well as of rebuke ; and it could not but have done English citizens good to hear coming from the other side of the world the grand declaration of the eternal dogma the Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. [...] Sen then drew a vivid picture of the condition of India two hundred years ago when the ancient literature and science of the country had perished and the ancient monotheistic faith had been corrupted and when instead of the doctrine of the brotherhood of man they found society pulverized into sects and castes and the people degraded and oppressed by a powerful priesthood.
history
Pages
243
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.143133
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-iii unknown view
Speech at the Annual Collatior1 of the British and Foreign Unitarian Association
1-12 unknown view
Visit to Bristol
13-16 unknown view
Reception at Bath
17-24 unknown view
Reception at Leicester
25-33 unknown view
Reception at Birmingham
34-49 unknown view
Reception at Nottingham
50-58 unknown view
Address from the Clergy of Nottingham
59-62 unknown view
Reply
63-65 Keshab Sen view
Reception at Manchester
66-72 unknown view
United Kingdom Alliance
73-83 unknown view
Visit to Liverpool
84-101 unknown view
A Meeting to form a Theistic Association
102-110 unknown view
Speech at the Victoria Discussion Society on Women in India
111-122 unknown view
Interview with the Queen
123-125 unknown view
Reception in Edinburgh
126-146 unknown view
Reception at Glasgow
147-156 unknown view
Reception at Leeds
157-159 unknown view
The Living God in England and India
160-180 unknown view
Farewell Sermon
181-196 unknown view
Bristol Indian Association
197-203 unknown view
Farewell Soiree
204-231 unknown view
Parting Words at Southampton
232-240 unknown view

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