![]() ![]() The idea known as the bhakti movement asserts that between 6 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.Ĭhallenging this canonical narrative, John Stratton Hawley clarifies the historical and political contingencies that gave birth to the concept of the bhakti movement. 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. ![]() Professor Vishkaha Desai will introduce the event. Please join us on Tuesday, March 24th, at 7pm for the launch of John Stratton Hawley's new book A Storm of Songs: India and the Idea of the Bhakti Movement. ![]()
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