Swami Vivekananda: A Reassessment
- N. Sil
- Political Science
- 1 March 1997
All the existing biographies of Swami Vivekananda affirm the larger-than-life stature of a princely, handsome, erudite, and eloquent young man who conquered the Christian West spiritually. This work…
Bande Mataram: Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay's nationalist thought revisited
- N. Sil
- Art
- 1 April 2002
I Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay (1838-94) has been the subject of an influential secular hagiography. He was called a saint (rishi) and a 'seer and nation-builder' by the admiring Aurobindo Akroyd…
Rāmakṛṣṇa Paramahaṁsa: A Psychological Profile
- N. Sil
- Psychology
- 1 September 1991
In the entire corpus of Ramakrsna research, carried out mostly by his disciples, devotes, and admirers, only a handful have attempted to analyze his divine reputation. Yet none has examined the…
Postcolonialism and Postcoloniality: A Premortem Prognosis
- N. Sil
- Art
- 2008
Postcolonialism as theory, contrasted with postcoloniality as reality, was born sometime during the earlier period of the Cold War that had developed Sphinx-like following the World War II announcing…
Is Ramakrishna a Vedantin, a Tantrika or a Vaishnava? An examination
- N. Sil
- Sociology
- 1 November 1997
Swami Vivekananda in the west: The legend reinterpreted
- N. Sil
- History
- 1 June 1995
The Black Hole of Empire: History of a Global Practice of Power, by Partha Chatterjee
- N. Sil
- History
- 1 July 2014
Nigerian Intellectuals and Socialism: Retrospect and Prospect
- N. Sil
- Economics, Political ScienceThe Journal of Modern African Studies
- 1 September 1993
Many Nigerian intellectuals have persisted in their enthusiasm for a socialist revolution. Historians, political scientists, sociologists, economists, novelists, and playwrights in the universities…
The Rise and Fall of Sir John Gates
- N. Sil
- HistoryHistorical-Philological Journal
- 1 December 1981
Sir John Gates has been a victim of bad luck and bad press. Historians have usually called him greedy, grasping, sacrilegious, conscienceless, and above all, unreliable in short, one who justly met…
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