Three bhakti voices: Mirabai, Surdas, and Kabir in their time and ours/
John Stratton Hawley
- New Delhi : Oxford University Press , c2005.
- xxvii,439p. : ill. ; 22cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-416) and index.
The Bhakti Poet-Saint 1. Author and authority -- 2. Morality beyond morality -- 3. The nirgun/Sagun distinction
Mirabai 4. Mirabai in manuscript -- 5. Mirabai as wife and yogi -- 6. The Saints Subded in Amar Chitra Katha -- 7. Krishna and gender of longing -- 8. Last seen with Akbar -- 9. The early Sursagar and the growth of the Sur tradition -- 10. The verbal icon-how literal? -- 11. Sur's Sudama -- 12. Creative enumeration in Sur's Vinaya poetry -- 13. Why Surdas went blind
Kabir 14. The received Kabir: beginnings to Bly -- 15. Kabir in his oldest dated manuscript -- 16. Vinaya crossovers: Kabir and Sur -- 17. Bhakti, democracy, and the study of religion
9780198085393 (pbk.)
Religious poetry, Hindi--History and criticism. Bhakti in literature.