Neilesh Bose
Professor of History at the University of Victoria specializing in modern South Asian intellectual and religious history, author of 'Chips from a Calcutta Workshop: Comparative Religion in Nineteenth Century India' (Cambridge UP, 2025).
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Feb 19, 2026 • 36min
Neilesh Bose, "Chips from a Calcutta Workshop: Comparative Religion in Nineteenth Century India" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Neilesh Bose, Professor of History at the University of Victoria and author of Chips from a Calcutta Workshop, studies 19th-century Indian comparative religion. He traces intellectual currents around the Brāhmo and Arya reform movements. Short takes cover Rammohan Roy, Debendranath Tagore, Keshab Chandra Sen, and Vivekananda. The conversation highlights sources, surprising centrality of the Vedas and Upanishads, and why this project matters.
Feb 19, 2026 • 36min
Neilesh Bose, "Chips from a Calcutta Workshop: Comparative Religion in Nineteenth Century India" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Neilesh Bose, Professor of History at the University of Victoria, reorients how we see nineteenth-century Indian thought. He discusses comparative religion arising from Indian reform movements. He highlights figures like Rammohan Roy, Debendranath Tagore, Keshab Chandra Sen, and Vivekananda. He traces sources, practices, and surprising centrality of the Vedas and Upanishads.
