The colonial encounter with India in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries brought the British in contact with new ideas, philosophy, and a new religion. This interface between Britain and India and the subsequent interest in, study, and translation of Hindu and Sanskrit texts by British officials and scholars greatly influenced British Romantic poets writing in the nineteenth century. This engagement also shaped Indians writing in the English language. This essay examines this interface and the influence of Hinduism on British Romantic literature.

Clooney focus on Ramanuja on religious experience as based in the contemplation of Hindu scripture, in tradition, and in ritual practice, and as offering a vision of the divine and of union of the human self with the divine. He suggests that Ramanuja’s work provides an “integrated Vedanta” that supplies the cognitive and affective components for one to move toward an intense spiritual existence in life.

The business operations of companies can have serious and adverse impacts on the community and society including, but not limited to, physical injuries, environmental damage, destruction to livelihoods and infringements on human rights.1 When companies impose externalities on societies, two major consequences arise. The first concerns whether and how the victims of the wrongdoing can bring a claim against the defendant, and the second relates to whether the delinquent company as well as its directors and officers have breached their duties under public interest legislations.