From Hagiographies to Biographies : Rāmānuja in tradition and history /

By:

Ranjeeta Dutta

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi Oxford University Press 2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 246 23 cmISBN:

9780198092292

Subject(s):

Śrī Vaishṇava (Sect)

DDC classification:

294.5512092 R165 H 102121

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Books	Ubhayabharati General Stacks	Non-fiction	294.5512092 R165 H 102121 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	102121

The image of an individual is usually a result of accretions of motifs in history. However most modern biographies crucial for popularizing Ramanuja have overlooked this fact. Emphasizing the dialogic interaction between the hagiographies and biographies, this study argues that the two cannot always be understood merely within the binaries of the sacred and the secular. Based upon a range of historical sources, the book delineates various moments of interactions in history when the notion of a remembered past and the historical memories through which the past would become a received tradition were being configured.

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