Keshub Chandra Sen’s New Dispensation and visionary religion

Record summary

Keshub Chandra Sen’s New Dispensation combined Brahmo monotheism with Hindu devotional forms, Christian symbolism, prophecy, and claims of spiritual inspiration. Its rituals and writings provide a documented case of nineteenth-century South Asian religious experimentation in which visionary authority and universalist revelation were publicly negotiated. The movement is relevant to occult comparison because it occupied a boundary between reform religion, charismatic experience, and esoteric synthesis. Historians disagree over how much of its symbolism reflected personal revelation, strategic innovation, or broader colonial-era religious exchange.