आगमे विश्वासटिप्पन्यः

(d. 1884) Reformist Hindu and leader of
the Brahmo Samaj, to which he gave most
of his life. His emphases on the ideal of ethical monotheism and rejection of many rituals were heavily influenced by English
Unitarianism. In 1865, the Samaj split over
Keshub’s insistence that members should
no longer wear the sacred thread. Then in
1878 Keshub had an inexplicable lapse in
principles when he arranged for the marriage of his thirteen year-old daughter.
Most of his followers left him in protest,
and he spent his remaining years creating
what he called the New Dispensation, a
new religion using elements drawn from
various religious traditions. At his death he
had few followers but had been influential
through his earlier efforts to reform Hindu
society, and to look critically at Christian
culture and religion. In his curiosity for religious ideas, he happened to meet the
Bengali mystic Ramakrishna, and it was
through association with Keshub that
Ramakrishna began to attract disciples
from Calcutta’s middle class, most notably
Narendranath Datta, who became famous
as Swami Vivekananda.