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

By John Stratton Hawley

Book information

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
2015
ISBN
9780674425262
DOI
10.4159/9780674425262
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7527496 bytes)
Pages
464\454
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-22 10:56:55

Description

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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