Kali Charan Banurji | |
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Personal details | |
Born | 1847 Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh |
Died | 1907 |
Political party | Indian National Congress |
Kali Charan Banerjee (1847–1907), spelt also as Kalicharan Banerji or K.C. Banerjea or K.C. Banurji, was a Bengali convert to Christianity through the Free Church of Scotland, the founder of Calcutta Christo Samaj, a Calcutta lawyer, and a founding member of the Indian National Congress.[1][2][3] [4]
In 1887, K. C Banerji and Shome formed the 'Calcutta Christo Samaj' which was a Christian parallel to the Brahmo Samaj
The growing Indian national movement in Bengal, which later came to be called the "Bengal storm"40 by Stephen Neill, made an indelible mark on the intelligentsia of Indian Christianity. For many of the leaders of socio-religious movements, Christianity was closely linked with imperialism, which later resulted in the revival and reassertion of Hinduism in conscious opposition to Christianity.41 Nevertheless, a number of educated Christians, both Indian and foreign theologians including Kali Charan Banerjee, Sathianadhan, K. T. Paul, Vedanayagam Samuel Azariah, Whitehead, C.F. Andrews, Appasamy, Chenchiah, and Vengal Chakkarai, became critical not only of the British raj but of the Western captivity of the Indian church at large.
KaIi Charan Banurji and 1. G Shome, both BengaIis about whom more will be said below under "new church attempts," spoke for a radical change in the way Christianity functioned in India.