Religious Process: The Puranas and the Making of a Regional Tradition (Oip)

ISBN-13: 9780199482542 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 384 str.

Kunal Chakrabarti

Opis

This book traces the evolution of a process of interaction between Brahmanism and the indigenous social groups of Bengal during the early medieval period. Following the logic of cultural negotiation implicit in the Puranas composed composed in Bengal, the book unravels a pattern that governed this relationship of recirpocity, contestation and domination.

Recenzje

Kunal Chakravarti's book is an outstanding interdisciplinary contriution to Bengal Studies...[T]he value of the book lies also in illuminating the social processes that generally make the cultural history oh India - T N Madan.

O autorze

Kunal Chakrabarti is Professor of Ancient History in the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi