Rammohun Roy and the Making of Victorian Britain

by Lynn Zastoupil and Zastoupil

Book Overview

This book investigates Rammohun Roy as a transnational celebrity. It examines the role of religious heterodoxy - particularly Christian Unitarianism - in transforming a colonial outsider into an imagined member of the emerging Victorian social order It uses his fame to shed fresh light on nineteenth-century British reformers, including advocates of liberty of the press, early feminists, free trade imperialists, and constitutional reformers such as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349380229
• ISBN13: 9781349380220
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"