Medieval Bhakti Movements in India (Sri Caitanya (Chaitanya) Quincentenary Commemoration Volume)

Although some aspects of the medieval bhakti movements are known or have been viewed by the historians from their own angles of vision, much remains to be known, understood and interpreted. The present volume, issued on the occasion of the Quincentenary of Mahaprabhu Sri Caitanya, is an attempt to understand a little more of the medieval bhakti movements of India. The contributors to the volume who have enthusiastically agreed to participate in this project are all specialists in their own fields and their valuable papers are expected to throw new light on many hitherto unknown or known features of the great historical movement, the far-reaching consequences of which are very much lively in the heart of the Indian masses even today. The contributors to this volume are Bimanbehari Majumdar, Niharranjan Ray, G.S. Chhabra, Manorama Kohli, G.V. Saroja, J.C. Jain, M.S. Ahluwalia, H.A. Qureshi, Manjula Bhattacharyya, Uma S. Deshpande, P.S. Mukharya, B.D. Gupta, Hafiz Md. Tahir Ali, N. Jagadesan, R. Champakalakshmi, S.K. Pathak, N. Subrahmanian, R. Meena, K.K. Kusuman, N.H. Kulkarnee, Prabhat Mukherjee, S.N. Sharma, Sarat Chandra Goswami, S. Dutta, N.N. Acharya, Bhaskar Chatterjee, Neal Delmonico, Sachin Majumdar, David Kopf and Pranabananda Jash. A detailed bibliography containing list of books and articles used by the contributors in preparing their papers and also other works pertaining to the bhakti concept has also been supplied. This handy volume has been edited by N.N. Bhattacharyya with an informative introduction.

About the Author:

Prof. Narendra Nath Bhattacharyya teaches in the Department of Ancient Indian History and Culture, University of Calcutta. Thought religious history in his forte he works at ease in diverse branches of ancient Indian history and civilization.

1. Religion of Love: The Early Medieval Phase (c. AD 700-1486)
   Bimanbehari Majumdar
2. The Concept of Sahaj in Guru Nanak's Theology and its Antecedents
   Niharranjan Ray
3. Guru Nanak's Concept of God
   G.S. Chhabra
4. Guru Nanak and the Bhakti Movement: Convergence and Divergence
   Manorama Kohli
5. Earliest References to the Bhakti Concept
   G.V. Saroja
6. The Medieval Bhakti Movement: Its influence on Jainism
   Jagdishchandra Jain
7. Baba Shaikh Farid: A Harbinger of Hindu-Muslim Unity
   M.S. Ahluwalia
8. Nature and Roots of Islamic Bhakti Movement and Syed Ashraf Jahangir Samnani
   Hamid Afaq Qureshi
9. Medieval Bhakti Movements in Gujarat
   Manjula Bhattacharyya
10. Narasimha Mehta: Saint-Poet from Gujarat
    Uma S. Deshpande
11. Saint Prannath and the Pranami Sect
    P.S. Mukharya
12. Pranami Sampradaya of Bundelkhand
    Bhagwan Das Gupta
13. Influence of Islam and Sufism on Prannath's Religious Movement
    Hafiz Md. Tahir Ali
14. The Life and Mission of Karaikkal Ammaiyar
    N. Jagadeesan
15. Religion and Social Change in Tamil Nadu (c. AD 600-1300)
    R. Champakalakshmi
16. The Dasa-bhakti of the Alvars
    Suniti Kumar Pathak
17. Bhaktism in Medieval Tamilnadu
    N. Subrahmanian
18. A Note on the Bhakti Movement in Tamilnad
    R. Meena
19. The Bhakti Movement in Kerala
    K.K. Kusuman
20. Medieval Maharashtra and Muslim Saint-Poets
    Narayan H. Kulkarnee
21. Vaisnavism in Medieval Orissa
    Prabhat Mukherjee
22. Sankaradeva and Assam Vaisnavism
    Satyendranath Sarma
23. Medieval Bhakti Movements in India: Sri Deva Damodara
    Sarat Chandra Goswami
24. Bhakti Movement and Aniruddhadeva of Assam
    S. Dutta
25. The Bhakti Movement of Assam in Historical Perspective
    N.N. Acharya
26. Social Perspective of Caitanyaism
    Bhaskar Chatterjee
27. For That Sacred Taste: The Rasa Problem in the Works of Rupa Gosvamin
    Neal Delmonico
28. Post-Caitanya Vaisnavite Sects in Bengal
    Sachin Majumdar
29. Keshub and Caitanya: Brahmo Evangelism and the Indigenous Modernization of Vaisnavism in Bengal
    David Kopf.
30. Tulasidasa: Ramacaritamanasa and Bhakti
    Pranabananda Jash

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