PB January 2018 204 here has been a long-standing trad- ition of scholarly engagement with Sri Ramakrishna, who is primarily known to the world through his teachings as recorded in the diary of Mahendranath Gupta, better known as ‘M’. hese jottings later came out as Engagements with The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna —A Survey Dr Arpita Mitra the Kathamrita, translated into English as he Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. his essay is an at- tempt at surveying the scholarly literature avail- able on Sri Ramakrishna’s ideas as expressed in the Kathamrita and mapping the reception of this text in Indian and international academia. It is by no means an exhaustive survey, but a representative one. Academic works on the Kathamrita have dealt with diferent aspects of T image: www.charleStonhomeS.ca Dr Arpita Mitra is a Associate Fellow at the Viveka- nanda International Foundation, New Delhi.