The Legacy of Vai¿¿avism in Colonial Bengal (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Sardella, Ferdinando; Wong, Lucian

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351357777
• Artikelnr.: 58321989

Autorenporträt

Ferdinando Sardella is Assistant Professor at Stockholm University, Sweden. He is a Research Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, University of Oxford, UK. Lucian Wong is a Post-Doctoral fellow of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies (OCHS), University of Oxford, UK and is Co-Director of the Bengali Vai¿¿avism in the Modern Period Project of the OCHS.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Vai
avism in Colonial Bengal: Beyond the Hindu Renaissance; Part One: Recovering the Legacy: How Vai
avas Adopted Colonial Modalities; 1 The Afterlife of an Avat
ra in Modern Times; 2 Theorising Bengal Vai
avism: Bipin Chandra Pal and New Perspectives on Religious Life and Culture; 3 Vai
ava Institutional Processes in Colonial Bengal; 4 Baba Premananda Bharati: His Trajectory into and through Bengal Vai
avism to the West; 5 Claiming High Ground: Gaü
ya Missionising Rhetoric on the Adhik
ra of Worship; 6 Directions for Future Research on Vai
avism in Colonial Bengal; Part Two: Contending the Portrayal: How Ethics Shaped This Religion of Love; 7 The Power of the Secret: The Tantalising Discourse of Vai
ava Sahajiy
Scholarship; 8 Sahajiya Texts of Nadia: Beyond Reform and Revival; 9 Love of Woman: Love of Humankind? Interconnections between B
ul Esoteric Practice and Social Radicalism; 10 Sexuality and Religion in Early Modern and Modern South Asia: The Case of Bengali Vai
avism; 11 Colonial Morals, Vai
ava Quarrels: Tracing the Sources of Nineteenth Century Anti-Sahajiy
Polemics