A Storm of Songs: India and the Idea of the Bhakti Movement

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Transliteration and Pronunciation -- Introduction -- 1. The Bhakti Movement and Its Discontents -- 2. The Transit of Bhakti -- 3. The Four Sampradbys and the Commonwealth of Love -- 4. The View from Brindavan -- 5. Victory in the Cities of Victory -- 6....

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Main Author: Hawley, John Stratton 1941- (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England Harvard University Press 2015
In:Year: 2015
Series/Journal:De Gruyter eBook-Paket Geschichte
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B India / Hinduism / Bhakti / History
IxTheo Classification:AG Religious life; material religion
BK Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism
KBM Asia
Further subjects:B Bhakti Social aspects History
B India & South Asia / Asia / HISTORY
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Summary:Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Transliteration and Pronunciation -- Introduction -- 1. The Bhakti Movement and Its Discontents -- 2. The Transit of Bhakti -- 3. The Four Sampradbys and the Commonwealth of Love -- 4. The View from Brindavan -- 5. Victory in the Cities of Victory -- 6. A Nation of Bhaktas -- 7. What Should the Bhakti Movement Be? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
A widely-accepted explanation for India’s national unity is a narrative called the bhakti movement—poet-saints singing bhakti from India’s southern tip to the Himalayas between 600 and 1600. John Hawley shows that this narrative, with its political overtones, was created by the early-twentieth-century circle around Rabindranath Tagore in Bengal
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:067442526X
Access:Restricted Access
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.4159/9780674425262