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- Title
Against Vaiṣṇava Deviance: Brāhmaṇical and Bhadralok Alliance in Bengal.
- Authors
Wong, Lucian
- Abstract
This article sets out to problematise the notion that late nineteenth and early twentieth century Vaiṣṇava anti-sahajiyā polemics can be taken as a definitive index of colonial wrought rupture within Gaudḍīya Vaiṣṇavism. It proceeds by (1) drawing attention to oblique, yet unmistakably polemical, forms of response to sahajiyā currents in pre-colonial Gauḍīya literature that are indicative of a movement towards a brāhman. ically-aligned Vais. n. ava normativity; and (2) highlighting how this movement towards normativity was further fostered in colonial times by Gauḍīya gosvāmī types, who were often extensively involved in bhadralok Vaiṣṇava domains.
- Subjects
SAHAJIYA; BRAHMANAS (Hindu texts); BHADRALOKS
- Publication
Religions, 2018, Vol 9, Issue 2, p57
- ISSN
2077-1444
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/rel9020057