TY  - BOOK
AU  - Varuni Bhatia
AU  - Varuni Bhatia
TI  - Unforgetting Chaitanya:  : Vaishnavism and cultures of devotion in colonial Bengal
SN  - 9780190873769
U1  - 294.55120 BHA 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - New York, NY 
PB  - : Oxford University Press
KW  - Religion
KW  - Vaishnavism -- India -- West Bengal -- History
KW  - Chaitanya, -- 1486-1534
N1  - Religion in decline in an age of progress --
Untidy realms --
A Swadeshi Chaitanya --
Recovering Bishnupriya's loss --
Utopia and a birthplace
N2  - 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.
ER  -