Chandranath Basu

Manuals and pamphlets Basu wrote two short but little known manuals on the ideal Hindu way of domestic life: Garhyastha Path (1886) and the Garhyastha Vidhi (1887). They were primarily aimed at women. In 1904, he published a detailed manual for the conduct of men - Sangyam Sikhhar Nimnotomo Sopan.

Masculinity In 1901, he wrote Sabitri Tattva a comparative study on Savitri and Satyavan; Basu proceeded with a similar outlook as in Shakuntala Tattwa and portraying Savitri as the ideal Hindu wife, held marriage as an institute that permeated death and any temporality.

Sen notes him to be the foremost spokesman of the orthodox view on Hindu marriage; Basu essentially viewed the institution as a longstanding social ritual for the sole purpose of maintaining progeny and male hegemony, absent any locus of individual autonomy. advocated for the continuity of patriarchal traits, prized female chastity as a social gift and opposed reforms in female education, against the Age of Consent Act in 1891, which sought to raise the age of consent for sexual intercourse from ten to twelve years in all jurisdictions and treat any violation thereof as rape, as violations of sacrosanct Hindu customs.

Tanika Sarkar notes that the adherence to Hindu customs was so rigid, that Basu and others went to the extent of showcasing the downsides of the status-quo as the strength of the Hindu women to bear such adversities.

Miscellaneous Basu was a vocal supporter of the Indigenous Aryan hypothesis, having extensively argued for the superiority of Aryan race and that the Indian Hindus were true Aryans; Tapan Raychaudhuri commented of the thought-school as 'aggressive chauvinism'.

Basu also engaged in aggressive exchanges with contemporary intellectuals; Tanika Sarkar notes a polemical discourse with Rabindranath Tagore concerning Hindu marriage and Hindu diet.

Death and legacy Basu died on 20 June 1910. He heavily influenced Bhudev Mukhopadhyay, an important figure of the Bengal Renaissance.