[Reader-list] Invitation to a Panel Discussion on ‘A Storm of Songs: India and the Idea of the Bhakti Movement’ at CSDS

[Praveen Rai]

*Centre for the Study of Developing Societies*

invites you to a panel discussion on





*A Storm of Songs *

*India and the Idea of the Bhakti Movement*

Panelists: *John Stratton Hawley, **Shail Mayaram*

*Ananya Vajpeyi, Ravikant, Rakesh Pandey & Rinku Lamba*





*Rajeev Bhargava* will Chair

Friday, 17 March 2017, 4.30 pm



CSDS Seminar
Room
                 *RSVP*

29 Rajpur Road, Delhi
110054
      Tel: 011 23942199

Please join us for tea at 4 pm
                                                      email: jaya at csds.in



India celebrates itself as a nation of unity in diversity and its sense of
unity comes from the ‘Bhakti movement’, a religion of the heart, of song,
of common participation, of inner peace, of anguished protest. Between 600
and 1600 CE, poet-saints sang bhakti from India’s southernmost tip to its
northern Himalayan heights, laying the religious bedrock upon which the
modern state of India would be built. Challenging this canonical narrative,
John Stratton Hawley’s book *A Storm of Songs: India and the Idea of the
Bhakti Movement *clarifies the historical and political contingencies that
gave birth to the concept of the bhakti movement. The interactions between
Hindus and Muslims, between the sexes, between proud regional cultures, and
between upper castes and Dalits are crucially embedded in the narrative,
making it a powerful political resource.



The book is scheduled to receive the *Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book
Prize (S. Asia) in 2017 from The Association for Asian Studies (AAS).*



*John Stratton Hawley *is Professor of Religion at Barnard College,
Columbia University.



*Shail Mayaram *is Professor at Centre for the Study of Developing
Societies, Delhi.



*Ananya Vajpeyi *is Associate Professor at Centre for the Study of
Developing Societies, Delhi.



*Ravikant *is Associate Professor at Centre for the Study of Developing
Societies, Delhi.



*Rakesh Pandey *is Assistant Professor at Centre for the Study of
Developing Societies, Delhi.



*Rinku Lamba *is Assistant Professor at Centre for Political Studies,
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.



*Rajeev Bhargava* is Professor at Centre for the Study of Developing
Societies, Delhi.


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Praveen Rai
Academic Secretary
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
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