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Narendra Jhā’s Bhaktamāl: Paṭhānuśīlan evam Vivecan is a thorough account and critical edition of Nābhādās’s Bhaktamāl. Jhā’s detailed study, published in 1978, still provides the best general overview of the Bhaktamāl, engaging closely with the previous literature and carefully weighing the evidence. In addition to treating basic but nonetheless difficult questions of author and [...]
A basic mistake regarding orientalism is the expectation that orientalists will be consistently haughty and disdainful of the ‘Orient’ they describe. The consistency of orientalism lies in its conviction that ‘Orientals’ are better off being ruled by Europeans. Orientalists portray the ‘East’ as static, tyranical, and obscure, but they oftentimes express this discursively established pattern [...]
Krishna Sharma’s Bhakti and the Bhakti Movement is an extended critique of academic understandings of bhakti. “Bhakti” in Sanskrit and related languages is a general term for loving devotion, but it has also become a technical term for exclusive monotheistic devotion to a personal God to the exclusion of other paths traditionally available to Hindus, [...]
