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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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England
Harvard University Press
2015
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| In: | Year: 2015 |
| Series/Journal: | De Gruyter eBook-Paket Geschichte
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
India
/ Hinduism
/ Bhakti
/ History
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| 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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| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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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 |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 067442526X |
| Access: | Restricted Access |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.4159/9780674425262 |