Brahmo Samaj

Concise reference summary and historical overview of the movement.

Sivanath Sastri’s historical account of the movement (early 20th-century chronicle), a primary documentary resource for institutional history.

Scholarly treatments of Ram Mohan Roy’s role in early nineteenth-century reform, available in various academic monographs by historians such as Amiya P. Sen and others.

Collections including discussion of Brahmo engagements with women's education and social reform; Geraldine Forbes has written on related topics.

Scholarly essays situating the Brahmo Samaj within the wider cultural transformations of nineteenth-century Bengal (works by scholars such as Sumit Sarkar and David Kopf discuss this context).

Contextual chapters addressing social and religious reform movements in colonial India.

Collections of Roy’s translations of Upanishadic passages and his essays on monotheism and social reform.

Journal articles and monographs by specialists in South Asian religious history, e.g., Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, Amiya P. Sen, and Geraldine Forbes; useful for analysis of institutional and doctrinal development.