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A Storm of Songs : India and the Idea of the Bhakti Movement / John Stratton Hawley.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (464 p.) : 11 halftones, 2 maps, 1 tableContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674187467
  • 9780674425262
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 294.509 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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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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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)