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

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

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-twent...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
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Hawley, John Stratton,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (464 p.) :; 11 halftones, 2 maps, 1 table
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Table of 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

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