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Last November, at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion in San Diego, I presented the following paper. I also presented it on Monday at the South Asia Graduate Student Forum at Columbia University. The paper is entitled “Garlanding Hinduism: Nābhādās’s Bhaktamāl in the Colonial Context.” Here’s a description:
The Bhaktamāl played a key [...]
This is a preprint of an article submitted for consideration to Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, Theory [2007] [copyright Taylor & Francis]; Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, Theory is available online at: http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/
Through the Bhaktamāl and its most influential commentary, therefore, we witness a debate over the boundaries of a religious community. In support of their [...]
The following prospectus was accurate as of August 2006.
Introduction
The Bhaktamāl, Nābhādās’s late sixteenth- or early seventeenth-century “garland of devotees,” occupies a central position in the consolidation of modern Hinduism. Nābhādās’s text is one of the first and most influential examples of the bhaktamāl genre, collections of poems that recall and praise great devotees. By [...]
