Europe Reconsidered: Perceptions of the West in Nineteenth-century Bengal

The book charts 19th-century Bengal's changing perceptions of and attitudes toward the West as embodied in the lives and ideas of three leading figures--Buhdev Mukhopadhyay, Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay, and Swami Vivekananda--providing important insights into an important period in Indian
intellectual history.