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May 5, 2021
Speaking about the upcoming conference, Dr. Dishan Kamdar, Vice-Chancellor, FLAME University, said, “This conference will showcase great learnings from a broad spectrum of renowned global educationists on ideas and beliefs of various religions and cultures. We look forward to having every attendee take away valuable insights that they may practice in their daily lives.”
Professor Pankaj Jain, heading Indic Studies at FLAME University, and convening this conference, said, “We are privileged to launch the series of Indic Studies conferences that provides a launchpad to establish the FLAME Centre for Indic Studies at FLAME University in the near future, the first such center at the pioneering liberal education institution in India. This centre aims to offer innovative Indic courses for students and develop research projects that tackle challenging global issues from Indic perspectives.”
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The Brahmo Samaj and its Vaiá¹£á¹ava Milieus: Intersections of Hindu Knowledge and Love in Nineteenth Century Bengal, Ankur Barua offers an intellectual history of the motif of religious universalism in the writings of some intellectuals associated with the Brahmo Samaj (founded in 1828). They constructed Hindu worldviews that were simultaneously rooted in some ancient Sanskritic materials and orientated towards contemporary universalist visions with western hues. These constructions were shaped by their dialectical engagements with three groups: members of the Bengali middle classes with sceptical standpoints (âYoung Bengalâ), Christian missionaries, and Hindu Vaiá¹£á¹ava thinkers. In this genealogy of religious universalisms, Barua indicates how certain post-1900 formulations of the universalist compass of Hinduism were being enunciated across Brahmo circles from the 1820s.