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"This is the first English biography of the Belgian Jesuit, Padma Bhushan recipient and renowned scholar of Hindi, Awadhi and Sanskrit: Father Camille Bulcke (1909-1982). Father Bulcke came to India when it was still a British colony, found spiritual inspiration in the life and compositions of the great Indian poet Goswami Tulsidas, and emerged as one of the renowned exponents of the Ramkatha (The Story of Rama) and the Hindi language. This book attempts to read and critically examine his life, while also analysing his writings on comparative religious studies. In doing so, it provides a brief overview of the world of Hindi literature and its development in postcolonial India through the contributions of Father Bulcke, and highlights the cultural and religious encounters between the West and the East, Europe and India, Christianity and Hinduism"--
List of contents
List of Figures; Foreword by Harish Trivedi; Acknowledgements; 1. Camille Bulcke: A New Horizon of Indology; 2. From Belgium to India: Inner and Outer Journeys; 3. A Scholar-Priest in the Making; 4. From Christ Bhakti to Tulsidas' Rama Bhakti; 5. Contributions to Indology and Scholarly Legacy; 6. The Man and His Mission: A Critical Appraisal; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.
About the author
Ravi Dutt Bajpai is an author and visiting researcher at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He is the co-author (with Harivansh) of Chandra Shekhar: The Last Icon of Ideological Politics (2019) and author of Civilization-States of China and India: Reshaping the World Order (2024).Swati Parashar is Professor in Peace and Development at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She is the author of Women and Militant Wars: The Politics of Injury (2014), co-author of Ripping, Cutting, Stitching: Feminist Knowledge Destruction and Creation in Global Politics (2023) and co-editor of Revisiting Gendered States: Feminist Imaginings of the State in International Relations (2018).
