Descrizione libro Soft cover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. Contents: List of illustrations. Preface: The shape of the book. Acknowledgements. Introduction: Namdev, Bhakti, Public and Memory. I. Practices of memory: 1. A Sant between memory and history. 2. Public performance and corporate authorship. 3. Orality and literacy/performance and permanence. II. Publics of memory: 4. Namdev and the Namas: Anamnetic authorship from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. 5. Memories of suffering in the eighteenth century. 6. A Sant for the nation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. 7. The idea of Namdev in two films in the twentieth century. Conclusion. Notes. Glossary. References. Index. "Namdev is a central figure in the cultural history of India, especially within the field of bhakti, a devotional practice that has created publics of memory around the figure of Namdev for over eight centuries. Born in the Marathi-speaking region of the Deccan in the late thirteenth century, Namdev is remembered as a simple, low-caste Hindu tailor whose innovative performances of devotional songs spread his fame widely. He is central to many religious traditions within Hinduism, as well as to Sikhism and he is a key early literary figure in Maharashtra, Northern India and Punjab. In the modern period, Namdev appears throughout the public spheres of Marathi and Hindi and in India at large, where his identity fluctuates between regional associations and a quiet, pan-Indian, nationalist-secularist profile that champions the poor, oppressed, marginalized and low caste. Christian Lee Novetzke considers the way social memory coheres around the figure of Namdev from the sixteenth century to the present, examining the practices that situate Namdev s memory in multiple historical publics. Focusing primarily on Maharashtra and drawing on ethnographies of devotional performance, archival materials, scholarly historiography and popular media, especially film, Novetzke vividly illustrates how religious communities in India preserve their pasts and in turn, create their own historical narratives. (jacket). Codice articolo 61296a

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