Dr. Ravi Sinha, Marxist Scholar and author delivered a talk on ‘Bhakti Streams of Religious Movements in Medieval North India

Q  &  A session Part 2 : https://youtu.be/bEJjcto5P14?si=EU0XzkVih8O-8gis

Q & A session Part 3 :  https://youtu.be/Eihwjhj_HRM?si=29UwXGfNO-c8UPux)

A  brief outline of the talk is also shared below :

Theme : Bhakti Streams of Religious Movements in Medieval North India

Outline

The idea is to take up discussion of the Bhakti Movement as it moves to medieval North India. It is often stated that the Bhakti Movement was born in the Tamil land in the 6th-7th centuries and over the next millennium it made its way to the northern and eastern parts of the subcontinent. In his famous Patel Lectures of 1964, the famous Sanskritist Professor V Raghavan engagingly described the pradakshina yatra (clockwise circumambulation) of the Bharat Bhumi by Bhakti carried on the shoulders of singing saint-poets. Such a narrative, however, can contain only partially the historical truth. It is difficult to locate a singular source of a phenomenon that covered the entire subcontinent and took twelve hundred years to accomplish that. Given its scope and complexity and its temporal span, it is even more difficult to attribute to it a linear historical momentum that would carry it along an identifiable trajectory across the subcontinent. ..

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