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Dr. Kalarikkal Poulose Aleaz is Professor of Religions at Bishop’s College, Kolkata. He is also a Professor at the North India Institute of Post Graduate Theological Studies (NIIPGTS) (Jointly sponsored by Serampore College and Bishop’s College). He guides doctoral candidates of South Asia Theological Research Institute, Bangalore as well. His previous works include (ed.), Dialogue in India: Multi-Religious Perspective and Practice, Calcutta: Bishop’s College, 1991: The role of Pramanas in Hindu Christian Epistemology, Calcutta: Punthi Pustak, 1991; Harmony of Religions. The Relevance of Swami Vivakananda, Calcutta: Punthi Pustak, 1993; The Gospel of Indian Culture, Calcutta: Punthi Pustak 1994; Sermons for a New Vision, Delhi: ISPCK, 1994; Jesus in Neo-Vedanta. A meeting of Hinduism and Christianity, Delhi: Kant Publications, 1995; Dimensions of Indian Religion, Study, Experience and Interaction, Calcutta: Punthi Pustak, 1995; The Relevance of Relation in Sankara’s Advaita Vedanta, Delhi: Kant Publications, 1996; Christian thought Through Advaita Vedanta, Delhi: ISPCK, 1996; An Indian Jesus from Sankara’s Thought, Calcutta: Punthi Pustak, 1997; theology of Religions Birmingham Papers and Other Essays, Calcutta: Moumita, 1998; (Comp. And Intro.), From Exclusivism to Inclusivism. The Theological Writing of Krishna Mohan Banerjee (1813-1885), Delhi: ISPCK, 1999; A Convergence of Advaita Vedanta and Eastern Christian thought, Delhi: ISPCK 2000; Religions in Christian Theology, Kolkata: Punthi Pustak, 2001; (Comp. And Intro.), a Christian Response to the Hindu Philosophical System by Nehemiah Nilakantha Sastri Goreh, Kolkata: Punthi Pustak, 2003 as well as The Quest for a Contextual Spirituality, Tiruvalla: CSS, 2004.

Nehemiah Nilkantha Sastri Goreh (1825-1895), a Maharashtrian Brahmin, a scholar in Sanskrit and Hindu thought, was born in Jhansi, brought up in Banaras, and came to accept Christian faith through his contact with a C.M.S. Missionary William Smith. He worked as lay missionary to educated Hindus first in Poona and then in Banaras and Cawnpore. It was in this period he wrote a Christian critique of the Hindu philosophical systems, in Hindu in 1860, and later the English translation came out in 1862. In 1870 he was ordained a priest of the Church of England, prior to which he spent some time in Bishop’s college, Calcutta both studying and teaching. He also brought out a number of booklet’s controverting the Brahmo claims, while continuing his work among educated Hindus in many parts of India with the Society of St. John the Evangelist in Poona as his base.