Request for Information

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Colleagues,

 

For several years I have been doing research and publishing articles about the

career of Baba Premananda Bharati (1868-1914), a Bengali Vaishnava teacher who

came to the United States in 1902, founded the Krishna Samaj in New York City,

published a well-received devotional book "Sree Krishna, the Lord of Love," and

established the first temple to Krishna in the United States at Los Angeles in

1907. I have done extensive research in the United States, England, and India

about his life, activities, religious teachings, and his anti-colonial political

vision of India. While I certainly have enough material to complete the

biography that I am now working on, there are three potentially-important items

of information that I have been unable to locate. I am taking the liberty of

contacting the members of several listserves in which I participate, with

profound apologies for cross-posting, to see if any of you have any suggestions

about where I might locate leads to this information. Please reply to me

off-list if you have any suggestions. Please understand that I have searched the

Library of Congress, the British Library, the Indian National Library, and

various on-line library and antiquarian book services to no avail.

 

1) Baba Bharati's novel "Jim," which was written to answer Kipling's "Kim." The

full novel was (self-)published by 1910-11 but does not appear in library

holdings.

2) The book "Baba Bharati in Madras," which was published in Madras in 1911-12

by G.C. Loganatham.

3) Information about the life and activities of Rose Reinhardt Anthon, Baba

Bharati's closest American disciple, who returned to Chicago in 1914 following

Baba Bharati's death. She lived in Chicago at least until 1940.

 

Please reply off-list if you have any information or suggestions. Thank you for

your time and consideration.

 

Jerry Carney

 

 

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Jerry Carney

Professor of Religion

Hampden-Sydney College

Hampden-Sydney VA 23943

434-223-6268 (W)

434-386-5592 (H)

gcarney

http://people.hsc.edu/faculty-staff/geraldc

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