Devotional rupture: Bengali Vaiṣṇavism and colonial modernity
<p>This thesis probes the dynamics of modernity in the context of colonial Hinduism. It challenges prevailing assumptions that the encounter with British colonialism effected a wholesale historical rupture within Hindu traditions and, moreover, that this rupture is constitutive of their modern...
Main Author: | Wong, L |
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Format: | Thesis |
Language: | Sanskrit English Bengali |
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2021
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