Three bhakti voices: Mirabai, Surdas, and Kabir in their time and ours/ John Stratton Hawley.
Material type: TextPublication details: New Delhi : Oxford University Press , c2005Description: xxvii,439p. : ill. ; 22cmISBN: 9780198085393 (pbk.)Subject(s): Religious poetry, Hindi -- History and criticism | Bhakti in literatureDDC classification: 891.4312Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Books | Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section | 891.4312 HAW/T (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | P39132 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-416) and index.
The Bhakti Poet-Saint
1. Author and authority --
2. Morality beyond morality --
3. The nirgun/Sagun distinction
Mirabai
4. Mirabai in manuscript -- 5. Mirabai as wife and yogi -- 6. The Saints Subded in Amar Chitra Katha -- 7. Krishna and gender of longing -- 8. Last seen with Akbar -- 9. The early Sursagar and the growth of the Sur tradition -- 10. The verbal icon-how literal? -- 11. Sur's Sudama -- 12. Creative enumeration in Sur's Vinaya poetry -- 13. Why Surdas went blind
Kabir
14. The received Kabir: beginnings to Bly -- 15. Kabir in his oldest dated manuscript -- 16. Vinaya crossovers: Kabir and Sur -- 17. Bhakti, democracy, and the study of religion
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