Unforgetting Chaitanya : Vaishnavism and cultures of devotion in colonial Bengal / Varuni Bhatia.

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 f...

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Online Access:Electronic book from Oxford Scholarship Online
Main Author: Bhatia, Varuni, 1975- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
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Summary: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 should be understood in relation to efforts to recover a ""pure"" Bengali cult.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiii, 291 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780190686277
0190686278
9780190686253
0190686251
9780190686260
019068626X
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