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Unforgetting Chaitanya: Vaishnavism and Cultures of Devotion in Colonial Bengal

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Unforgetting Chaitanya: Vaishnavism and Cultures of Devotion in Colonial Bengal - Bhatia, Varuni
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In Unforgetting Chaitanya , Varuni Bhatia examines late-nineteenth-century transformations of Vaishnavism--a vibrant and multifaceted religious tradition emanating from the Krishna devotee Chaitnaya (1486-1533)-in Bengal. Drawing on an extensive body of hitherto unexamined archival material, Bhatia finds that both Vaishnava modernizers and secular voices among the educated middle-class invoked Chaitanya, portraying him simultaneously as a local hero, a Hindu reformer, and as God almighty. She argues that these claims ...

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Unforgetting Chaitanya: Vaishnavism and Cultures of Devotion in Colonial Bengal 2017, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780190686246

Hardcover