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| birth_place = [[Bansberia]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]] (present-day [[Hooghly District]], [[West Bengal]], [[India]])<ref name = "Bose290">Sengupta, Subodh Chandra and Bose, Anjali (editors), (1976), ''Samsad Bangali Charitabhidhan'' (Biographical dictionary)'', {{in lang|bn}}, p 290</ref>
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'''Protap Chunder Mozoomdar''' ({{lang-bn|প্রতাপ চন্দ্র মজুমদার}} ''Protap Chôndro Mojumdar'', also transliterated as Pratap Chander Mozoomdar) (1840–1905) was a leader of the Hindu reform movement, the [[Brahmo Samaj]], in Bengal, [[India]], and a close follower of [[Keshub Chandra Sen]]. He was a leading exemplar of the interaction between the philosophies and ethics of [[Hinduism]] and [[Christianity]], about which he wrote in his book, ''The Oriental Christ''.

==Life and work==
Sen and his colleagues agreed that four Brahmos would study and report on the relationship between Brahmo ideals and the four major world religions ([[Hinduism]], [[Christianity]], [[Buddhism]] and [[Islam]]). [[Gour Govinda Ray]] was deputed to examine [[Hinduism]]; [[Aghore Nath Gupta]], [[Buddhism]] and [[Girish Chandra Sen]], [[Islam]]. Mozoomdar was deputed to study [[Christianity]]. His resulting book, ''The Oriental Christ'', was published by Geo. H. Ellis in Boston in 1883.<ref>Suresh Chunder Bose (1929). ''The Life of Protap Chunder Mozoomdar'' (Vol. 2). Calcutta: Nababidhan Press, p. 105.</ref> It was much discussed in the West, and eventually led to an important correspondence between Mozoomdar and [[Max Müller]] about the relationship between [[Hinduism]] and [[Christianity]]. After Mozoomdar published the correspondence it led to controversy in both [[United Kingdom|Britain]] and [[India]]. Müller's efforts to get Mozoomdar to state openly that he was now a Christian were rejected by Mozoomdar, who argued that the label "Christian" did not properly articulate his own positive view of Jesus as a model of self-sacrifice, one whose actions and claims to divinity he interpreted from within the Brahmo philosophy. In turn Müller stated that Christians should learn from the Brahmos and should abandon the traditional Christian formulation of [[Atonement in Christianity|Atonement]].<ref>Müller, Georgina, ''The Life and Letters of Right Honorable Friedrich Max Müller'', 2 vols. London: Longman, 1902.</ref>

Mozoomdar also wrote several books about the spiritual and social ideals of the Brahmo movement and a biography of Sen, ''The Life and Teachings of [[Keshub Chunder Sen]]'' (1887). He also wrote a biography of [[Ramakrishna]], of whom he expressed deep admiration. He attended the [[Parliament of the World's Religions]] in [[Chicago]] in 1893 as a delegate for the Brahmo Samaj. In October 1893, Mozoomdar was elected a member of the [[American Antiquarian Society]].<ref>[http://www.americanantiquarian.org/memberlistm American Antiquarian Society Members Directory]</ref>

In 1919, the collected precepts of Protap Chunder Mazoomdar were published titled as 'Upadesh'.<ref>{{cite book|author=Protap Chunder Mazoomdar|title=Upadesh|year=1919|location=Calcutta}}</ref> The writings of Mazoomdar reflects an outlook that freely acknowledges the value and fundamental affinity of different religions - including Christianity, Islam, or Judaism - and the religious figures associated with their origin and propagation.

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* {{cite book|author=Suresh Chunder Bose|title=The Life of Protap Chunder Mozoomdar|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xAwQHAAACAAJ|year=1940|publisher=Nababidhan Trust}}
* {{cite book|author=Sunrit Mullick|title=The First Hindu Mission to America: The Pioneering Visits of Protap Chunder Mozoomdar|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V09TruheaBMC|date=1 January 2010|publisher=Northern Book Centre|isbn=978-81-7211-281-3}}

==External links==
* {{Internet Archive author |sname=Protap Chunder Mozoomdar}}
*[http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070121/asp/opinion/story_7219845.asp Article in the ''Telegraph of India'', "Rote, Rhetoric and Identity - The ‘mixed bag’ quality of the colonial encounter, by Malavika Karlekar"],
*[https://archive.org/details/orientalchrist00mozo "The oriental Christ" written by Protap Chunder Mozoomdar]

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