In this book on Chaitanya, Amiya P. Sen focuses on the discourses surrounding the mystic’s life. Written in a lucid manner and for a wider audience, this book is a fresh attempt to historically reconstruct Chaitanya’s life and times in Bengal and Odisha, as well as Vrindavan. This work evaluates how Chaitanya has been understood contemporaneously and posthumously, particularly as an icon in colonial Bengal. Sen offers a full-length biographical account of Nimai or Gaur by drawing on a wide range of sources in English and Bengali.