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A Storm of Songs: (Record no. 75570)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN	9780674980044
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number	294.509 J6139 S
Item number	104302
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name	John Stratton Hawley
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title	A Storm of Songs:
Remainder of title	India and the idea of the Bhakti Movement
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement	1st ed
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication	London
Name of publisher	Harvard University Press
Date of publication	2015
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages	438
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note	India celebrates itself as a nation of unity in diversity, but where does that sense of unity come from? One important source is a widely-accepted narrative called the “bhakti movement.” Bhakti is the religion of the heart, of song, of common participation, of inner peace, of anguished protest. The idea known as the bhakti movement asserts that between 600 and 1600 CE, poet-saints sang bhakti from India’s southernmost tip to its northern Himalayan heights, laying the religious bedrock upon which the modern state of India would be built.<br/><br/>Challenging this canonical narrative, John Stratton Hawley clarifies the historical and political contingencies that gave birth to the concept of the bhakti movement. Starting with the Mughals and their Kachvaha allies, North Indian groups looked to the Hindu South as a resource that would give religious and linguistic depth to their own collective history. Only in the early twentieth century did the idea of a bhakti “movement” crystallize—in the intellectual circle surrounding Rabindranath Tagore in Bengal. Interactions between Hindus and Muslims, between the sexes, between proud regional cultures, and between upper castes and Dalits are crucially embedded in the narrative, making it a powerful political resource.<br/><br/>A Storm of Songs ponders the destiny of the idea of the bhakti movement in a globalizing India. If bhakti is the beating heart of India, this is the story of how it was implanted there—and whether it can survive.<br/><br/>RELATED LINKS<br/>Browse a selection of HUP works on the foundations of modern South Asia<br/>Permalink<br/>Find at a Bookstore [+/-]<br/>Find at a Library »<br/>Cite This Book »<br/>AWARDS & ACCOLADES<br/>2017 Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize, South Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies<br/>
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Formatted contents note	Acknowledgments<br/>Transliteration and Pronunciation<br/>Introduction<br/>1. The Bhakti Movement and Its Discontents<br/>2. The Transit of Bhakti<br/>3. The Four Sampradāys and the Commonwealth of Love<br/>4. The View from Brindavan<br/>5. Victory in the Cities of Victory<br/>6. A Nation of Bhaktas<br/>7. What Should the Bhakti Movement Be?<br/>Notes<br/>Bibliography<br/>Index<br/>RELATED LINKS<br/>Browse a selection of HUP works on the foundations of modern South Asia<br/>Permalink<br/>Find at a Bookstore [+/-]<br/>Find at a Library »<br/>Cite This Book »<br/>AWARDS & ACCOLADES<br/>2017 Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize, South Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies<br/>
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Topical Term	Hawley, John Stratton, 1941-
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Koha item type	Books

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