Introduction: The Power of Bhakti
Situations
Chapter One
Affect and Identity in Early Bhakti: Karaikkal Ammaiyar as Poet, Servant, and Pey
Karen Pechilis
Chapter Two
Religious Equality, Social Conservatism: The Shiva-Bhakti Community as Imagined in Early Kannada Hagiographies
Gil Ben-Herut
Chapter Three
Caste and Women in Early Modern India: Krishna Bhakti in Sixteenth-Century Vrindavan
Heidi R. M. Pauwels
Chapter Four
“Are You All Coming to the Esplanade?”: Devotional Music and Contingent Politics in West Bengal
Eben Graves
Chapter Five
All the Valmikis Are One: Bhakti as Majoritarian Project
Joel Lee
Mediations
Chapter Six
The Political Theology of Bhakti, or When Devotionalism Meets Vernacularization
Christian Lee Novetzke
Chapter Seven
Bhakti as Elite Cultural Practice: Digambar Jain Bhakti in Early Modern North India
John E. Cort
Chapter Eight
Lover and Yogi in Punjabi Sufi Poetry: The Story of Hir and Ranjha
Manpreet Kaur
Chapter Nine
Illuminating the Formless: God, King, and Devotion in an Assamese Illustrated Manuscript
Phyllis Granoff
Chapter Ten
Bhakti as Relationship: Drawing Form and Personality from the Formless
David L. Haberman
Chapter Eleven
Bhakti the Mediator
John Stratton Hawley
Solidarities
Chapter Twelve
Singing in Protest: Early Modern Hindu-Muslim Encounters in Bengali Hagiographies of Chaitanya
Kiyokazu Okita
Chapter Thirteen
Bhakti and Power from the Inside: A Devotee’s Reading of What Chaitanya Achieved
Shrivatsa Goswami
Chapter Fourteen
Fall from Grace?: Caste, Bhakti, and Politics in Late Eighteenth-Century Marwar
Divya Cherian
Chapter Fifteen
The Ties That Bind: Individual, Family, and Community in Northwestern Bhakti
Tyler Williams
Chapter Sixteen
Waterscape and Memory: The Aina-i Tirhut of Bihari Lal “Fitrat” and the Politics of a Bhakti Past
Aditi Natasha Kini and William R. Pinch
Chapter Seventeen
Bhakti in the Classroom: What Do American Students Hear?
Richard H. Davis
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index