Theosophy, Translation, and the Mediation of Hinduism

Lecture by Prof. Gauri Viswanathan, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University

Gauri Viswanathan is Class of 1933 Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. She has published widely on education, religion, and culture; nineteenth-century British and colonial cultural studies; and the history of modern disciplines. She is author of the award-winning books Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India(Columbia, 1989; Oxford, 1998) and Outside the Fold: Conversion, Modernity and Belief (Princeton, 1998). Prof. Viswanathan’s current work is on genealogies of secularism and the writing of alternative religious histories via Theosophy. She is a network partner in the international research project "Enchanted Modernities: Theosophy, Modernism, and the Arts," funded by the Leverhulme Trust in the UK.Bir