Camille Bulcke

Ravi Dutt Bajpai, Swati Parashar

Camille Bulcke
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
31 January 2025
Pages
325
ISBN
9781108838122

Camille Bulcke

Ravi Dutt Bajpai, Swati Parashar

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.

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