A Storm of Songs: India and the Idea of the Bhakti Movement

by John Stratton Hawley

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A widely-accepted explanation for India's national unity is a narrative called the bhakti movement-poet-saints singing bhakti from India's southern tip to the Himalayas between 600 and 1600. John Hawley shows that this narrative, with its political overtones, was created by the early-twentieth-century circle around Rabindranath Tagore in Bengal.
  • ISBN13 9780674425262
  • Publish Date 9 March 2015
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Harvard University Press