About the Book: Religion and Society
This book consists of eight "Stephanos Nirmalendu Ghose Lectures for 1981"
delivered by Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya. The series had been instituted by Rai
Bahadur G.C. Ghosh at the University of Calcutta as a memorial to his late son.
Rai Bahadur, a devout Christian, intended the lectures to be a defence or,
perhaps more appropriately, a propagation of religion. It is a tribute to Indias
spirit of respect for difference of opinion that a staunch Marxist was invited
to deliver one series of lectures.