BRAHMABANDHAB UPADHYAY

A "HINDU-CATHOLIC" HIS SIGNIFICANCE FOR THEOLOGIZING IN INDIA TODAY

Abstract

STATEMENTOF THE INDIAN THEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
Thirtieth Annual Meeting, April 21- 25, 2007

Brahmabandhab Upadhyay (Bhavani Charan Bannerjee)) is an
Iridian who has done his country and the faith that he professed,
proud. During the 46 years of his life Brahmabandhab Upadhyay
(1861-1907) sought the truth relentlessly, engaged in the freedom
struggle against foreign domination and lived out Christian
discipleship in spite of difficult odds. Equipped with a sharp and
probing intellect, he followed truth on a journey that led him to be
baptized a Catholic, to appreciate his Hindu upbringing that had
made him proficient in Vedanta, to participate in a struggle for
freedom that took him to prison and to his death and, finally, to
arrive at a fulfillment that is the legacy he leaves to all of us Indians