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

A Storm of Songs: India and the Idea of the Bhakti Movement
ISBN-10
0674187466
ISBN-13
9780674187467
Category
History
Pages
457
Language
English
Published
2015-03-09
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Author
John Stratton Hawley

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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