Kind attn: Mr Sarbajit Ray,
Many thanks for posting this reference. I was badly wanting to read this
book since long and was fascinated by the formation of Brahmo Samaj.
Google has scanned most of the book online except for the chapters
on Keshab Sen which are deleted.
Shymal Dutta
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brahmoconferenceorg@..., "sroy1947" <sroy1947@...> wrote:
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> The Brahmo Samaj and the shaping of the modern Indian mind By David Kopf
>
> For people seriously interested in a Westerner's perspective on
Brahmoism's development, this entertaining (if sometimes wildly inaccurate)
book is available online couresy google. (A limited preview).
>
> As the author acknowledges at the end, his book was mainly based on the
Sophia Dobsot Collet section of the Sadharan Brahmo Samaj library (and grew
out of his attendance of the Sammilan Samaj's Brahmo Conference at
Hazaribagh in 1971).
>
> Kopf also concludes (in 1979) that Brahmoism's biggest enemy would be
Marxism.
>
>
http://books.google.co.in/books?id=IUcY_IRKDHQC>
> The Brahmo Samaj and the shaping of the modern Indian mind
> By David Kopf
> Edition: illustrated
> Published by Atlantic Publishers & Distri, 1979
> ISBN 0691031258, 9780691031255
> 399 pages
>
