Shared Devotion, Shared Food: Equality and the Bhakti-Caste Question in Western India

by Jon Keune

When Hindu devotional or bhakti traditions welcomed marginalized people-women, low castes, and Dalits-were they promoting social equality? In this book, Jon Keune deftly examines the root of this deceptively simple question. The modern formulation of the bhakti-caste question is what Dalit leader B. R. Ambedkar had in mind when he concluded that the saints promoted spiritual equality but did not transform society. While taking Ambedkar's judgment...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197574831
• ISBN13: 9780197574836
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.5"