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

By: Varuni BhatiaContributor(s): Varuni BhatiaMaterial type: Text

TextPublisher number: SARAS Books | ;2/31,Ansari Road,Darya Ganj,New Delhi-110002Publication details: New York, NY : Oxford University Press , 2017Description: xiii, 291 pages ;24 cmISBN: 9780190873769Subject(s): ReligionGenre/Form: Vaishnavism -- India -- West Bengal -- History.DDC classification: 294.55120 BHA

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.

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Religion in decline in an age of progress --
Untidy realms --
A Swadeshi Chaitanya --
Recovering Bishnupriya's loss --
Utopia and a birthplace.

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.

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