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<p>A well-known conflict over girls' education between a Victorian reformer and the leader of the Brahmo Samaj, a Hindu reformist sect, has often been held up as an example of British imperial condescension, or at least a failure of a westerner to understand Indian culture. A closer reexamination of events shows that there was greater complexity to the encounter. The conflict is clarified by discussion of the circumstances of both parties: Annette Akroyd's Unitarianism and education, and Keshub Chunder Sen's shifting theological position and role in the press activities of his zealous young missionaries.</p>
Journal of World History – University of Hawai'I Press
Published: Feb 24, 2005
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