Baba Premananda Bharati

Baba Premananda Bharati was an Indian spiritual writer and teacher whose dates are commonly given as 1857–1914. He is remembered especially for Sree Krishna, the Lord of Love, first published in New York in 1904 by The Krishna Samaj.

Sources available here describe him as an early Hindu missionary or teacher in the United States. A later edition of Sri Krishna: The Lord of Love notes that he arrived in the U.S. in 1902 and stayed until 1911, and several library and archive records connect his work with The Krishna Samaj in New York.

What makes him especially interesting to modern readers is his place in the early meeting between Indian devotional thought and Western audiences. His writing aims to explain Krishna, love, worship, and spiritual life in clear English for readers who may have been encountering these ideas for the first time.