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A Storm of Songs A S T o R M o f S o n g S 90 India and the Idea of the Bhakti Movement John STRATTon hAwlEy Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England 2015 Copyright © 2015 by the President and fellows of harvard College All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America first Printing Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data hawley, John Stratton, 1941– author. A storm of songs : India and the idea of the bhakti movement / John Stratton hawley. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBn 978-0-674-18746-7 1. Bhakti—Social aspects—history. I. Title. Bl1214.32.B53h42 2015 294.509—dc23 2014026466 To my academic patit- pbvan, who have rescued me when fallen: Aditya Behl Shrivatsa Goswami Monika Horstmann Rachel McDermott Rupert Snell Contents Acknowledgments ix Transliteration and Pronunciation xiii Introduction 1 1. The Bhakti Movement and Its Discontents 13 2. The Transit of Bhakti 59 3. The Four Sampradbys and the Commonwealth of Love 99 4. The View from Brindavan 148 5. Victory in the Cities of Victory 190 6. A Nation of Bhaktas 230 7. What Should the Bhakti Movement Be? 285 Notes 343 Bibliography 381 Index 423 Acknowledgments And the last shall be first. As I come to the end of the decade- long project that has resulted in the book before you, I have the pleasure of thanking some of the people and institutions who have made it possible. not all, by any means: how could I possibly record the full extent of the kindnesses and conversations that have gone into the making of this book? If you remember such a conversation and do not find your name in the list below or in the text and its notes, please accept my silent thanks. I am grateful to the national Endowment for the humanities, the American Institute of Indian Studies, the Andrew w. Mellon foundation, and Barnard College for grants that made it possible for me to travel to India, and to Barnard for the leaves that allowed me to accept them. I am also indebted to the leonard hastings Schoff fund of The University Seminars at Columbia University, which has provided support for aspects of the book’s publication. Members of the University Seminar on South Asia discussed the final chapter with me on September 15, 2014. In India I have been the recipient of many kindnesses from the India International Centre, the Sri Caitanya Prema Samsthana, the Indira gandhi national Centre for the Arts, the nehru Memorial library, the Indira gandhi Center for the Arts, the national Museum, Prof. Seniruddha Dash and the staff of the new Catalogus Catalogorum, the Indian Institute for Advanced Study, the oriental Institute of Baroda, the Rajasthan oriental Research Institute, the Vrindaban Research Institute, the City Palace library and museum in Jaipur, Rabindra Bhavan and the hindi Bhavan at Shantiniketan, Vrajesh Kumarji Maharaj and his staff at the Sarasvati Vibhag library in Kankroli, and numerous other manuscript collections
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