Three Bhakti Voices: Mirabai, Surdas and Kabir in Their Times and Ours

By:

Hawley, John Stratton

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford University Press India 2005Description: 439pISBN:

9780198085393

Subject(s):

Humanities and Social Science

DDC classification:

891.431209 HAW

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Item type	Current library	Item location	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book	NIMA Knowledge Centre	5th Floor Reading Zone	General	891.431209 HAW (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		L0011390

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The landscape of North Indian religion was dramatically transformed in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries by a remarkable family of poet-saints. Among the most famous and beloved of these figures-in India and throughout the world-are Mirabai, Surdas, and Kabir. In this book, John Stratton Hawley takes a probing look at all three, finding that many of the beliefs and legends surrounding them-even central motifs-emerged long after their deaths. This volume probes the lives, works, beliefs, and legends of three Bhakti poets-Mirabai, Surdas, and Kabir. Analysing the oldest manuscripts across North India, Hawley describes how these poets were heard and perceived in their own day and reveals startling facts about them

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