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In Unforgetting Chaitanya, Varuni Bhatia examines late-nineteenth-century transformations of Vaishnavism--a vibrant and multifaceted religious tradition emanating from the Krishna devotee Chaitnaya (1486-1533)-in Bengal. Drawing on an extensive body of hitherto unexamined archival material, Bhatia finds that both Vaishnava modernizers and secular voices among the educated middle-class invoked Chaitanya, portraying him simultaneously as a local hero, a Hindu reformer, and as God almighty. She arg
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- Author
- Bhatia, Varuni; Chaitanya
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated; Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780190686260
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- History, Religion, Anthropology
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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