A Storm of Songs

Nonfiction, History, Asian, India, Religion & Spirituality, Eastern Religions, Hinduism, Reference
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Author: John Stratton Hawley ISBN: 9780674425286
Publisher: Harvard University Press Publication: March 9, 2015
Imprint: Harvard University Press Language: English
Author: John Stratton Hawley
ISBN: 9780674425286
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication: March 9, 2015
Imprint: Harvard University Press
Language: English

A widely-accepted explanation for India’s national unity is a narrative called the bhakti movement—poet-saints singing bhakti from India’s southern tip to the Himalayas between 600 and 1600. John Hawley shows that this narrative, with its political overtones, was created by the early-twentieth-century circle around Rabindranath Tagore in Bengal.

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A widely-accepted explanation for India’s national unity is a narrative called the bhakti movement—poet-saints singing bhakti from India’s southern tip to the Himalayas between 600 and 1600. John Hawley shows that this narrative, with its political overtones, was created by the early-twentieth-century circle around Rabindranath Tagore in Bengal.

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