Camille Bulcke

Ravi Dutt Bajpai is an author and visiting researcher at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He is the co-author (with Harivansh) of Chandra Shekhar: The Last Icon of Ideological Politics (2019) and author of Civilization-States of China and India: Reshaping the World Order (2024). Swati Parashar is Professor in Peace and Development at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She is the author of Women and Militant Wars: The Politics of Injury (2014), co-author of Ripping, Cutting, Stitching: Feminist Knowledge Destruction and Creation in Global Politics (2023) and co-editor of Revisiting Gendered States: Feminist Imaginings of the State in International Relations (2018).

• List of Figures; Foreword by Harish Trivedi; Acknowledgements; 1. Camille Bulcke: A New Horizon of Indology; 2. From Belgium to India: Inner and Outer Journeys; 3. A Scholar-Priest in the Making; 4. From Christ Bhakti to Tulsidas' Rama Bhakti; 5. Contributions to Indology and Scholarly Legacy; 6. The Man and His Mission: A Critical Appraisal; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.

'Father Camille Bulcke was an exceptional missionary who devoted his entire life to serving Hindi. Buckle's lifelong association with Ramcharitmanas and its remarkable creator, Tulsidas, brought some of the finest writings on the genesis and development of Ramkatha. As a distinguished lexicographer, Bulcke compiled an excellent English–Hindi dictionary, which is very useful even after so many decades. This book offers a fascinating account of Bulcke's life, his times and his contribution to India and the Hindi world.' Emmanuel Baxla, Fr Camille Bulcke Research Centre