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The Legacy of Vaiṣṇavism in Colonial Bengal

The Legacy of Vaiṣṇavism in Colonial Bengal

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Hindu Studies

General Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral SociologyHinduism

ISBN10: 1138561797
ISBN13: 9781138561793
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 13 2019
Pages: 266
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

This book offers a focused examination of the Bengali Vaiṣṇava tradition in its manifold forms in the pivotal context of British colonialism in South Asia.

Bringing together scholars from across the disciplines of social and intellectual history, philology, theology, and anthropology to systematically investigate Vaiṣṇavism in colonial Bengal, this book highlights the significant roles--religious, social, and cultural--that a prominent Hindu devotional current played in the lives of wide and diverse sections of colonial Bengali society. Not only does the book thereby enrich our understanding of the history and development of Bengali Vaiṣṇavism, but it also sheds valuable new light on the texture and dynamics of colonial Hinduism beyond the discursive and social-historical parameters of an entrenched Hindu Renaissance paradigm.

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