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The Place of Devotion

Siting and Experiencing Divinity in Bengal-Vaishnavism

By: Sukanya Sarbadhikary

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The Place of Devotion

Siting and Experiencing Divinity in Bengal-Vaishnavism

By: Sukanya Sarbadhikary

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s new open access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Hindu devotional traditions have long been recognized for their sacred geographies as well as the sensuous aspects of their devotees' experiences. Largely overlooked, however, are the subtle links between these religious expressions. Based on intensive fieldwork conducted among worshippers in Bengal’s Navadvip-Mayapur sacred complex, this book discusses the diverse and contrasting ways in which Bengal-Vaishnava devotees experience sacred geography and divinity. Sukanya Sarbadhikary documents an extensive range of practices, which draw on the interactions of mind, body, and viscera. She shows how perspectives on religion, embodiment, affect, and space are enriched when sacred spatialities of internal and external forms are studied at once.

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294

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Univ of California Press

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0520962664

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9780520962668

Approaches to Human Development

By: Sukanya Ray,Anil Baran Ray

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Approaches to Human Development

By: Sukanya Ray,Anil Baran Ray

In giving his mantra towards the highest development and fulfilment of human beings and in inspiring human beings everywhere to take it up, Vivekananda not only built a bridge between the classical and the contemporary but also made a lasting contribution to human thought. Published by Advaita Ashrama, a publication house of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math, this book gives an interpretation to Swami Vivekananda’s approaches to human development in terms of the three leading concepts of formation, consolidation, and articulation.

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214

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Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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817505901X

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9788175059016

Plants Make Friends Too

By: Sukanya Dutta

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Plants Make Friends Too

By: Sukanya Dutta

Trees have a subtle language to which animals have been responding over millennia. A communication system that the plants use to compete and even wage ruthless wars. This book is an attempt to decode this warm, but chillingly efficient system.

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SCB Distributors

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8183284221

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9788183284226

In-Between Worlds

Performing [as] Bauls in an Age of Extremism

By: Sukanya Chakrabarti

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In-Between Worlds

Performing [as] Bauls in an Age of Extremism

By: Sukanya Chakrabarti

This book examines the performance of Bauls, ‘folk’ performers from Bengal, in the context of a rapidly globalizing Indian economy and against the backdrop of extreme nationalistic discourses. Recognizing their scope beyond the musical and cultural realm, Sukanya Chakrabarti engages in discussing the subversive and transformational potency of Bauls and their performances. In-Between Worlds argues that the Bauls through their musical, spiritual, and cultural performances offer ‘joy’ and ‘spirituality,’ thus making space for what Dr. Ambedkar in his famous 1942 speech had identified as ‘reclamation of human personality’. Chakrabarti destabilizes the category of ‘folk’ as a fixed classification or an origin point, and fractures homogeneous historical representations of the Baul as a ‘folk’ performer and a wandering mendicant exposing the complex heterogeneity that characterizes this group. Establishing ‘folk-ness’ as a performance category, and ‘folk festivals’ as sites of performing ‘folk-ness,’ contributing to a heritage industry that thrives on imagined and recreated nostalgia, Chakrabarti examines different sites that produce varied performative identities of Bauls, probing the limits of such categories while simultaneously advocating for polyvocality and multifocality. While this project has grounded itself firmly in performance studies, it has borrowed extensively from fields of postcolonial studies and subaltern histories, literature, ethnography and ethnomusicology, and cosmopolitan studies.

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237

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Taylor & Francis

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1000797740

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9781000797749

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar

The Man and His Mission

By: Sukanya Datta

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Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar

The Man and His Mission

By: Sukanya Datta

Shanti Swarupa Bhatnagar, 1894-1955, Indian scientist.

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152

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8172363427

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9788172363420

Book's by Sukanya Datta

The Place of Devotion

The Place of Devotion

Approaches to Human Development

Approaches to Human Development

Plants Make Friends Too

Plants Make Friends Too

In-Between Worlds

In-Between Worlds

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar

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