Gurus and Their Followers: New Religious Reform Movements in Colonial India by Antony Copley
This volume assembles a collection of essays on the new religious reform movements that swept India in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. One general account, exploring the theme of religious leadership, provides a context for sepcialized essays on the Brahmo Samaj, the Ramakrishna Mission, The Arya Samaj, the Ahmadiya movement and the Theosophists.