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Author Dutta, Ranjeeta, author

Title From hagiographies to biographies : Ramanuja in tradition and history / Ranjeeta Dutta
Published New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2014

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Summary This book explores the history and role of hagiographies and their impact on the growth and evolution of a biographical tradition. Focusing on Ramanuja, one of the foremost reformers and Vaisnava saints, it presents the hagiographical accounts of his life within the historical context of the twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth centuries when the processes of canonization took place
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 27, 2014)
Subject Rāmānuja, 1017-1137.
SUBJECT Rāmānuja, 1017-1137 fast
Subject Hagiography -- History -- To 1500
Hagiography
Religion.
Philosophy & Religion.
Hinduism.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780199082926
0199082928