Against Vais.n. ava Deviance: Brahman ¯ . ical and Bhadralok Alliance in Bengal
Journal Title: Religions - Year 2018, Vol 9, Issue 2
Abstract
This article sets out to problematise the notion that late nineteenth and early twentieth century Vais.n. ava anti-sahajiya¯ polemics can be taken as a definitive index of colonial wrought rupture within Gaud . ¯ıya Vais.n. avism. It proceeds by (1) drawing attention to oblique, yet unmistakably polemical, forms of response to sahajiya¯ currents in pre-colonial Gaud. ¯ıya literature that are indicative of a movement towards a brahma ¯ n . ically-aligned Vais.n. ava normativity; and (2) highlighting how this movement towards normativity was further fostered in colonial times by Gaud. ¯ıya gosvam ¯ ¯ı types, who were often extensively involved in bhadralok Vais.n. ava domains.
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Lucian Wong
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