In the Bengal of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a small circle of Indian Christian thinkers labored to receive the faith in the language of their own philosophical inheritance. Krishna Mohan Banerjee, Brahmabandhab Upadhyay, and Sadhu Sundar Singh wrote in Sanskrit categories and Vedantic terms, and Upadhyay’s journal Sophia became the meeting place for a vision of Christianity grown from Indian soil.
“Hindu by birth, Catholic by rebirth; Hindu by race and culture, Catholic by faith.”
— BRAHMABANDHAB UPADHYAY
