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...

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Main Author: Wong, L
Format: Thesis
Language:Sanskrit
English
Bengali
Published: 2021
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