Download or read book A Storm of Songs written by John Stratton Hawley and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-09 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India celebrates itself as a nation of unity in diversity, but where does that sense of unity come from? One important source is a widely-accepted narrative called the “bhakti movement.” Bhakti is the religion of the heart, of song, of common participation, of inner peace, of anguished protest. The idea known as the bhakti movement asserts that between 600 and 1600 CE, poet-saints sang bhakti from India’s southernmost tip to its northern Himalayan heights, laying the religious bedrock upon which the modern state of India would be built. Challenging this canonical narrative, John Stratton Hawley clarifies the historical and political contingencies that gave birth to the concept of the bhakti movement. Starting with the Mughals and their Kachvaha allies, North Indian groups looked to the Hindu South as a resource that would give religious and linguistic depth to their own collective history. Only in the early twentieth century did the idea of a bhakti “movement” crystallize—in the intellectual circle surrounding Rabindranath Tagore in Bengal. Interactions between Hindus and Muslims, between the sexes, between proud regional cultures, and between upper castes and Dalits are crucially embedded in the narrative, making it a powerful political resource. A Storm of Songs ponders the destiny of the idea of the bhakti movement in a globalizing India. If bhakti is the beating heart of India, this is the story of how it was implanted there—and whether it can survive.
Download or read book India Holy Song written by Xavier Zimbardo and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 100 colored photographs taken by an award-winning photographer over a 15-year period provides a light-filled, heart-stopping portrait of the Indian people whose way of life and sacred rituals are some of the most fascinating and enigmatic in the world. Color photos.
Download or read book Sacred Songs of India written by V. K. Subramanian and published by Abhinav Publications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four, Like Its Predecessor Volumes One, Two And Three, Encompasses Selections From The Lifework Of Ten Mystic Poet-Saints Of India. The Mystic Poet-Sages Include'D In This R Volume Lived Between The 8Th And 20Th C Centuries And Came From Such Diverse Regions Of India.Jike Kashmir, Kerala, Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Punjab And Andhra Pradesh. They Are: Sundarar (Also Known As Sundara- Murthy), One Of The Great Nayanmars, Nammalular, The Doyen Of Alwars, Basavanna, The Founder Of Veerasaivism-A Movement Pledged To An Egalitarian Society Devoted To God, Ijad Ded Or Ijalla Yogeswari, The Kashmiri Saivite Yogin, Bihva Mangal Immortalised By His Poem Krishnakarnamritam, Chandidas, The Vaishn Vite Rebel Of Bengal Who Spear- Headed The Sahaja Movement Ofbhakti, Guru Nanak, The Founder Of Sikhism, A'Knath, The Maharcishtra Saint, Kshetrajna, The Telugu Composer Whose Sensual Images Sought To Seek Spiriulal Uplift And Suddhananda Bharati, Th~ Mystic Yogi, Who Poured Out His Heart- Felt Love For God In Mellifluous Poetry. The Sang In Different Languages: Kashmiri, Kannada, Sanskrit, Punja Bi, Telugu, Marathi, Bmgali And Tamil But All Of Them Sang Of The Glory Of God, With Whom Each Had An Intimate, Spiritual Communion. This Precious Spiritual Legacy Bequeathed By The Mystics Of India Will Be A Perennial Source Of Inspiration For All Scholars Of Indology And A Limitless Repertoire For All Artistes In The Fields Of Music, Dance, Drama And Ballet.
Download or read book Sacred Songs of India written by V. K. Subramanian and published by Abhinav Publications. This book was released on 2001-11 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection includes the work of ten mystic poet-saints who lived between the 8th and 20th century and came from diverse regions of India.
Download or read book Sounds of the Sacred written by Selina Thielemann and published by APH Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It Is A Good Introduction To The Musico-Literary Traditions Of Vraja And The Collection Of Lectures And Short Essays Concentrate Upon Traditions Of Music Whether Sacred Or Secular, As An Act Of Divine Worship.
Download or read book Songs of the Saints of India written by John Stratton Hawley and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book Presents The Life Stories And Poems Of Six Well-Known Saint Poets Of North India Ravidas, Kabir, Nanak, Surdas, Mirabai Abd Tulsidas-Who Have Contributed More To The Religious Vocabulary Of Hinduism In North India Today Than Any Voices Before Or Since. The Author`S Deep Knowledge Of The Bhakti Traditions Of North India Is Evident Both In Their Choice Of Representative Poetry For Each Of The Six Saints And In The Rendering Of Their Poetry, Which Are So Skilfully Fashioned That One Can Easily Hear The Naunces Of Each Poet`S Voice In Registers Of Contemporary English.
Download or read book Sacred Songs of India Musicological and religious analysis text and translation written by Emmie te Nijenhuis and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Religious Experience in the Hindu Tradition written by June McDaniel and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue Religious Experience in the Hindu Tradition that was published in Religions
Download or read book The Folk songs of Southern India written by Charles E. Gover and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Holi Hai written by Chitra Soundar and published by Albert Whitman & Company. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Soundar's clear, concise text provides an excellent introduction to Holi and its significance, as well as a beautiful story about love and forgiveness, making it a great choice for reading alone or sharing with family."—Booklist Celebrate the Hindu festival of colors. Gauri is excited to splash colors on everyone for Holi. But when she doesn't get her favorite color, Gauri gets mad. Will she find a way to overcome her anger and join in the festivities?
Download or read book Sacred Songs of India Music examples written by Emmie te Nijenhuis and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Indian to the Indians written by Reinhard Wendt and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 2006 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preface in German; abstracts in English and German.
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Download or read book Gandhi The Holy Man written by Rene Fulop-Miller and published by K.K. Publications. This book was released on with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gandhi The Holy Man The people look on Gandhi as a saint; he is venerated in India as no other man has ever been. Although his birth and caste are not such as to seem likely to win prestige, since he is neither Brahman nor a Kshatriya, belongs o the Banya caste, nevertheless, the most high-caste Brahmans bow reverently before him. "The whole nation follows him implicitly," says Rabindranath Tagore, "and for one reason only, that they believe him to be a saint. To see a whole nation of different races, of differing temperaments and ideals, joining and following a saint, is a modern miracle and only possible in India. The worst and most deep-rooted passions re soothed by the words: `Mahatama Gandhi forbids it...' I don't agree with Gandhi in many things but I give him y utmost reverence and admiration. e is not only the greatest man in India; e is the greatest man on earth today. It s not only the masses who feel Gandhi's spell Indian intellectuals also peak of Gandhi as there "Mahatma." hat this word "Mahatma," "great soul," means to the Hindu is also explained to us by Rabindranath Tagore: "The word 'Mahatma' means he liberated ego which rediscovers itself in all other souls that life no longer confined in individual human beings, he comprehensive soul of the Atman, f the spirit. In this way, the soul comes 'Mahatma,' by comprehending all souls, all spirit in itself." Anyone who would understand the greatness of Gandhi's influence must make himself familiar with the peculiar conditions prevailing in India. The population of the country consists of an immense number of stocks, races, and groups, widely separated ethnologically, who speak eleven different languages and belong to the most varied religions and sects. Seventy million are adherents of Islam alone, and have for centuries lived with the Hindus in continual dissension and perpetual hostility. The English Governor, Mr. Lloyd, one of Gandhi's fiercest enemies, declared after his arrest that he must be buried alive in prison and no one allowed access to him, or his cell would soon become a Mecca for the whole world. How well-founded this fear was is clearly shown by the description in an Indian paper: "In the evenings" this journal states, "the public assembled in large numbers at the Sabarmati Prison to do homage to their beloved leader; the masses stood before the prison as before a temple. When the bell rang to announce the hour of admission the sound was received with thrills of joy. Then the crowd of pilgrims 8 Gandhi: The Holy man approached their revered Mahatma; some threw themselves at his feet, others touched him with awe, others again showed their respect only by profound salaams. Mothers laid their infants in his arms and old women touched the ground before him to show their devotion."— from the book
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