The temple priest Ramakrishna of Dakshineswar worships Kali with total devotion, then practices Islam and Christianity and declares every path reaches the same goal; his disciple circle and his recorded conversations make him the saint of India's religious pluralism.
Tagged: Hindu Hindu Reform Movements Shaktism
The Event
- Date
- 1836–1886 (exact)
- Era
- Colonial; Standard periodization of Hindu history
- Location
- Dakshineswar; today Kolkata, West Bengal, India
- Traditions
- Hinduism
- Streams
- Shaktism, Hindu Reform Movements
- Key figures
- Ramakrishna, Sarada Devi
Primary Sources
- The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (recorded by Mahendranath Gupta)
Secondary Sources
- Jones, Socio-religious Reform Movements in British India (Cambridge, 1989)
- Flood, An Introduction to Hinduism (Cambridge, 1996)
Provenance: HIST-0328; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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