Sacred Songs And Social Worlds: Purandaradasa's Reflections on Community
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Sacred Songs, Social Worlds: Purandaradasa's Reflections on Community reads Purandara Dasa is more than a sainted figure in inherited memory. It approaches him as a poet of enormous reach, a philosophical mind working in song, and a vernacular force whose Kirtanas reshaped the moral and devotional life around them.
Rooted in the intellectual and spiritual force of Dasa Sahitya, the book traces how his corpus engages with women, ritual, and caste within a distinctly Madhva frame, while also turning toward larger questions of ethics, embodied life, hierarchy, and grace.
This is a work of scholarship, but it is also something more personal. Through translation, interpretation, and sustained critical reading, it brings Vyasa Tirtha's dualist rigour, Purandara's literary brilliance, and the socially charged energy of Haridasa thought into contact with the present.
The book treats Purandara neither as a distant icon nor as a merely historical subject. It listens to him as a continuing voice, one whose songs still disturb console, clarify, and demand response. At its heart, this study is an effort to preserve, renew, and pass forward a legacy that time, neglect, and historical fracture have placed at risk.
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