Twenty-first century Yoga was crafted by four Hindus with a bold, modern fusion of Yoga philosophy, Western science, religion, and the occult Below is a brief summary and an index of biographical sketches of these four bold founders of Modern Yoga How four Hindus first developed Modern Yoga is summarized by David Gordon White in The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: A Biography (2014): “In Calcutta and greater Bengal, the administrative and intellectual center of the British Raj [British government in India], Vedanta-inspired spirituality came to be increasingly embraced by India’s urban elites as a compelling Hindu response to the missionary colonialism of British Christendom.
