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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hawley, John Stratton, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bhakti--Social aspects--History.

Bhakti.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (457 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

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.

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

9780674425286

0674425286

9780674425262

067442526X

OCLC:

903930809