Bhakti versus rīti? The Sants' perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2820875 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dalpat S Rajpurohit (0000-0001-6328-6315, The University of Texas at Austin, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 84 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 95-113 |
| Publication date | 2021-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0041-977X • E-ISSN: 1474-0699 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0041977x21000264 |
| OpenAlex | W3156989782 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 5 |
Scholars have rightly questioned the periodization of early modern Hindi literature (fourteenth to mid-nineteenth century) into two major thematic and temporal categories, often described as binaries: an early bhaktikāl (era of devotion), and the later rītikāl (era of mannerism). It is now common to understand bhakti and rīti as complementary modes of poetic expression rather than oppositional styles that poets had to identify with entirely. This paper uses the perspective of poet-saints (sants) to argue that, although the sants share many features with the rīti poets in terms of genres and register, they diverge fundamentally from them on the topic of the proper motives of composing verse. The criticism that the sants register with selected rīti themes - conflicts which would later figure in the writings of Hindi literary historians in the nationalist era - can be seen as anticipating the modern bhakti versus rīti distinction
Ancient history · Art · Character (mathematics) · Criticism · Hindi · Linguistics · Literature · Nationalism · Periodization · Perspective (graphical) · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Register (sociolinguistics) · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Classics · History · Indian and Buddhist Studies · Law · Philosophy · South Asian Studies and Diaspora
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2024 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |