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'{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} {{Infobox person | name = Protap Chunder Majoomdar | image = The World's Parliament of Religions - an illustrated and popular story of the World's First Parliament of Religions, held in Chicago in connection with the Columbian exposition of 1893 (1893) (14762059301).jpg | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = 2 Oct 1840 | birth_place = [[Bansberia]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]] (present-day [[Hooghly District]], [[West Bengal]], [[India]])<ref name = "Bose290">Sengupta, Subodh Chandra and Bose, Anjali (editors), (1976), ''Samsad Bangali Charitabhidhan'' (Biographical dictionary)'', {{in lang|bn}}, p 290</ref> | death_date = 21 May 1905 | death_place = [[Calcutta]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]] | resting_place = | occupation = Writer, Religious Leader | nationality = Bengali | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = | awards = }} '''Protap Chunder Mozoomdar''' ({{lang-bn|প্রতাপ চন্দ্র মজুমদার}} ''Protap Chôndro Mojumdar'', also transliterated as Pratap Chander Mozoomdar) (2 Oct 1840–21 May 1905) was a leader of the Hindu reform movement, the [[Brahmo Samaj]], in Bengal, [[India]], and a close follower of [[Keshub Chandra Sen]]. He was a leading exemplar of the interaction between the philosophies and ethics of [[Hinduism]] and [[Christianity]], about which he wrote in his book, ''The Oriental Christ''. ==Life and work== Sen and his colleagues agreed that four Brahmos would study and report on the relationship between Brahmo ideals and the four major world religions ([[Hinduism]], [[Christianity]], [[Buddhism]] and [[Islam]]). [[Gour Govinda Ray]] was deputed to examine [[Hinduism]]; [[Aghore Nath Gupta]], [[Buddhism]] and [[Girish Chandra Sen]], [[Islam]]. Mozoomdar was deputed to study [[Christianity]]. His resulting book, ''The Oriental Christ'', was published by Geo. H. Ellis in Boston in 1883.<ref>Suresh Chunder Bose (1929). ''The Life of Protap Chunder Mozoomdar'' (Vol. 2). Calcutta: Nababidhan Press, p. 105.</ref> It was much discussed in the West, and eventually led to an important correspondence between Mozoomdar and [[Max Müller]] about the relationship between [[Hinduism]] and [[Christianity]]. After Mozoomdar published the correspondence it led to controversy in both [[United Kingdom|Britain]] and [[India]]. Müller's efforts to get Mozoomdar to state openly that he was now a Christian were rejected by Mozoomdar, who argued that the label "Christian" did not properly articulate his own positive view of Jesus as a model of self-sacrifice, one whose actions and claims to divinity he interpreted from within the Brahmo philosophy. In turn Müller stated that Christians should learn from the Brahmos and should abandon the traditional Christian formulation of [[Atonement in Christianity|Atonement]].<ref>Müller, Georgina, ''The Life and Letters of Right Honorable Friedrich Max Müller'', 2 vols. London: Longman, 1902.</ref> Mozoomdar also wrote several books about the spiritual and social ideals of the Brahmo movement and a biography of Sen, ''The Life and Teachings of [[Keshub Chunder Sen]]'' (1887). He also wrote a biography of [[Ramakrishna]], of whom he expressed deep admiration. He attended the [[Parliament of the World's Religions]] in [[Chicago]] in 1893 as a delegate for the Brahmo Samaj. In October 1893, Mozoomdar was elected a member of the [[American Antiquarian Society]].<ref>[http://www.americanantiquarian.org/memberlistm American Antiquarian Society Members Directory]</ref> In 1919, the collected precepts of Protap Chunder Mazoomdar were published titled as 'Upadesh'.<ref>{{cite book|author=Protap Chunder Mazoomdar|title=Upadesh|year=1919|location=Calcutta}}</ref> The writings of Mazoomdar reflects an outlook that freely acknowledges the value and fundamental affinity of different religions - including Christianity, Islam, or Judaism - and the religious figures associated with their origin and propagation. === Swami Vivekananda and Protap Chunder Mozoomdar === P.C. Mozoomdar failed to understand Swami Vivekananda. He failed to see Swami's love in particular for the country India and in general for all the humanity. Mozoomdar said certain things about Swami Vivekananda which were false and had no authenticity. He questioned the life and integrity of Swami Vivekananda after the Parliament of World's Religion in Chicago in 1893 which had made an unknown monk the most known representative of the poor, downtrodden and suffering people of India. Swami Vivekananda was representing a religion which was for everyone regardless of cast, color and creed. It was the religion of humanity. It was literally a new universal gospel the world was awaiting for and the Parliament of Religion became the instrument to bring it before the whole world. It was difficult for Mazoomdar to accept the message from a contemporary Indian brother who was younger in years to him. ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Bibliography== * {{cite book|author=Suresh Chunder Bose|title=The Life of Protap Chunder Mozoomdar|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xAwQHAAACAAJ|year=1940|publisher=Nababidhan Trust}} * {{cite book|author=Sunrit Mullick|title=The First Hindu Mission to America: The Pioneering Visits of Protap Chunder Mozoomdar|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V09TruheaBMC|date=1 January 2010|publisher=Northern Book Centre|isbn=978-81-7211-281-3}} ==External links== * {{Internet Archive author |sname=Protap Chunder Mozoomdar}} *[http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070121/asp/opinion/story_7219845.asp Article in the ''Telegraph of India'', "Rote, Rhetoric and Identity - The ‘mixed bag’ quality of the colonial encounter, by Malavika Karlekar"], *[https://archive.org/details/orientalchrist00mozo "The oriental Christ" written by Protap Chunder Mozoomdar] {{Bengal Renaissance|state=collapsed}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Mozoomdar, Protap Chunder}} [[Category:19th-century Indian philosophers]] [[Category:1840 births]] [[Category:1905 deaths]] [[Category:19th-century Bengalis]] [[Category:Bengali writers]] [[Category:Brahmos]] [[Category:Bengali Hindus]] [[Category:20th-century Bengalis]] [[Category:Indian Christian writers]] [[Category:Members of the American Antiquarian Society]] [[Category:Scholars from West Bengal]] [[Category:Hindu philosophers and theologians]] [[Category:19th-century Hindu philosophers and theologians]] [[Category:Indian theologians]] [[Category:Indian religious writers]] [[Category:19th-century Indian writers]]'