Neelima Shukla-Bhatt offers an illuminating study of Narsinha Mehta, one of the most renowned saint-poets of medieval India and the most celebrated bhakti (devotion) poet from Gujarat, and shows how the songs and sacred narratives associated with the saint-poet have been sculpted into a popular source of moral inspiration by performers and audiences.
Neelima Shukla-Bhatt offers an illuminating study of Narsinha Mehta, one of the most renowned saint-poets of medieval India and the most celebrated bhakti (devotion) poet from Gujarat, and shows how the songs and sacred narratives associated with the saint-poet have been sculpted into a popular source of moral inspiration by performers and audiences.
Neelima Shukla-Bhatt is Assistant Professor of South Asia Studies at Wellesley College.
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* List of Illustrations * Acknowledgments * Preface * Note on transliteration * Introduction * Part I - Devotion and Aesthetics in the Narasinha Tradition * 1. Lyrics of Play- Krishna in the Human World * 2. Lyrics of Awakening - Mysticism and Moral Reflection * 3. Exemplary Bhakti, Exemplary Singing - Narasinha in Sacred Narratives * 4. Singing as Bhakti - Musical Performances of Narasinha's Songs * Part II - The Narasinha Legacy in Religious and Popular Cultures * 5. The Saint of the Threshold, the First of Poets - The Narasinha Tradition in Gujarat and Beyond * 6. A Saint-poet in the Making of a Mahatma - Narasinha Mehta and Gandhi * 7. Songs and the Saint in Modern Media - Narasinha in Popular Culture * Concluding Remarks * Glossary * Notes * Bibliography * Index
* List of Illustrations * Acknowledgments * Preface * Note on transliteration * Introduction * Part I - Devotion and Aesthetics in the Narasinha Tradition * 1. Lyrics of Play- Krishna in the Human World * 2. Lyrics of Awakening - Mysticism and Moral Reflection * 3. Exemplary Bhakti, Exemplary Singing - Narasinha in Sacred Narratives * 4. Singing as Bhakti - Musical Performances of Narasinha's Songs * Part II - The Narasinha Legacy in Religious and Popular Cultures * 5. The Saint of the Threshold, the First of Poets - The Narasinha Tradition in Gujarat and Beyond * 6. A Saint-poet in the Making of a Mahatma - Narasinha Mehta and Gandhi * 7. Songs and the Saint in Modern Media - Narasinha in Popular Culture * Concluding Remarks * Glossary * Notes * Bibliography * Index
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