The Light of the East

The Light of the East was a monthly review founded in 1922[1] at Calcutta by Georges Dandoy, SJ (1882-1962) and Pierre Johanns, SJ.[2] Dandoy was the chief editor.[3] The monthly ceased publication in 1934.[4]

Founding and objective

Dandoy and Johanns were young Jesuits, newly arrived in India, when they met Brahmachari Animananda, disciple of Brahmobandhav Upadhyay. Animananda encouraged them in their desire to begin a journal that would carry on the spirit of inquiry initiated by Upadhyay.[5] P. Turmes reports that Animananda's face brightened up when the two Jesuits laid before him the proposal for a journal that would present Christ to India in a way adapted to her mentality and culture.[6]

Both Dandoy and Johanns contributed regularly to the review. Several of Johanns' contributions were later published in book form under the title To Christ to the Vedanta.[7] Other contributors included members of the so-called Calcutta School of Indology.

Holdings

The Indian Institute of the University of Oxford has an incomplete set.[8] The Yale University Library has a complete set on microfilm.

References
  1. Joseph Mattam SJ. "Interpreting Christ to India Today: The Calcutta School" (PDF). Biblical Studies. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
  2. Sean Doyle, Synthesizing the Vedanta: The Theology of Pierre Johanns, S.J. (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2006) 28.
  3. Doyle 127.
  4. Martin Ganeri (2007). "Knowledge and Love of God in Ramanuja and Aquinas". Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies. 20 (6). Retrieved 16 October 2016.
  5. Doyle 130-131.
  6. P. Turmes, A Teacher of Genius: B. Animananda (Calcutta: Xavier Publications, 1963) 63.
  7. To Christ through the Vedānta: The Writings of Reverend P. Johanns, S.J. 2 vols. Ed. Theo de Greeff. Bangalore: The United Theological College, 1996.
  8. Doyle 23.


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