A Dead Man's Thesis, Another Man's Book

Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

In March 2002, Tamal Krishna Goswami died in a car accident in Mayapur, India. He was a Cambridge doctoral candidate. His dissertation – five chapters on Prabhupada’s theological contributions – was unfinished. No conclusion. No title. No final chapter on prema, the ultimate goal of devotional life.

Ten years later, Oxford University Press published A Living Theology of Krishna Bhakti: Essential Teachings of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.

The cover says Tamal Krishna Goswami. The editor is Graham M. Schweig – known within ISKCON as Garuda Das – a professor of philosophy and religion at Christopher Newport University in Virginia.

Schweig on Light of Dharma Publishing

A Dead Man's Thesis, Another Man's Book