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100			_aJohn Stratton Hawley
245			_aA Storm of Songs: _bIndia and the idea of the Bhakti Movement
250			_a1st ed
260			_aLondon _bHarvard University Press _c2015
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500			_aIndia 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. 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. 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. RELATED LINKS Browse a selection of HUP works on the foundations of modern South Asia Permalink Find at a Bookstore [+/-] Find at a Library » Cite This Book » AWARDS & ACCOLADES 2017 Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize, South Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies
505			_aAcknowledgments Transliteration and Pronunciation Introduction 1. The Bhakti Movement and Its Discontents 2. The Transit of Bhakti 3. The Four Sampradāys 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 RELATED LINKS Browse a selection of HUP works on the foundations of modern South Asia Permalink Find at a Bookstore [+/-] Find at a Library » Cite This Book » AWARDS & ACCOLADES 2017 Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize, South Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies
650			_aHawley, John Stratton, 1941-
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