| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 291 pages) |
| Contents |
Religion in decline in an age of progress -- Untidy realms -- A Swadeshi Chaitanya -- Recovering Bishnupriya's loss -- Utopia and a birthplace |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 09, 2017) |
| Subject |
Chaitanya, 1486-1534.
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| SUBJECT |
Chaitanya, 1486-1534 fast |
| Subject |
Vaishnavism -- India -- West Bengal -- History
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Vaishnavism -- India -- Bengal -- History
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RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
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Vaishnavism
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India -- Bengal
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India -- West Bengal
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2017025295 |
| ISBN |
9780190686277 |
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0190686278 |
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9780190686253 |
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0190686251 |
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9780190686260 |
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019068626X |
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