The Hagiographies of Anantadas: The Bhakti Poets of North India
Book Details
Author(s)
Winnand Callewaert
Publisher
Routledge
ISBN / ASIN
070071331X
ISBN-13
9780700713318
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#11,040,632
Category
Biography & Autobiography
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Description
Anantadas is the first 'biographer' who, around 1600, wrote about the most popular bhakti poets of the 15th and 16th centuries in Northern India. This critical study of these manuscripts yields a broad spectrum of the linguistic and morphological variants. It also reveals the processes of oral and scribal transmission during this time when sectarian interests appropriated certain poets and changed their 'biographies' accordingly.
