Brian a HatcherBrian A. Hatcher is Professor and Packard Chair of Theology in the Department of Religion at Tufts University, Medford, USA. An expert on modern Hinduism and colonial Bengal, he is the author of Eclecticism and Modern Hindu Discourse (1999), Bourgeoi Hinduism, or the Faith of the Modern Vedantists: Rare Discourses from Early Colonial Bengal (2008), Vidyasagar: The Life and After-life of an Eminent Indian (2013), and Hinduism Before Reform (2020). He has also translated Íśvarcandra Vidyāsāgar's Hindu Widow Marriage (2011) and is the editor of Hinduism in the Modern World (2016). Read More Read Less