Sisir's Tears: Bhakti and Belonging in Colonial Bengal.
This article explores the manner in which bhakti emerges as a politicotheological concept in the period of rising nationalism in colonial Bengal. It examines Śrī Amiya Nimāī Carita, a multivolume sacred biography of Kṛṣṇa-Caitanya (1486-1533) authored by Sisir Kumar Ghosh (1840-1911) between 1885 an...
| Published in: | International Journal of Hindu Studies Vol. 21; no. 1; pp. 1 - 25 |
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