07-13-2009, 04:36 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-"Dhu"+-->QUOTE("Dhu")<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Bhakti movement</b> which was a corrective response to certain perception changes about their being leaders of the "religion" in India (needed by the religionists to mark the "leaders" for elimination), <b>is now being redescribed as a response to degradation within the heathen culture itself and as an escape from the heathen culture and a foreshadow of the project.</b> OT is similarly an impulse to backproject a monotheist sensibility onto native societies and native narratives (back into 'history').
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Am reading JL Mehta's "Advanced History of Medieval India" which has this very line of reasoning in the chapter on Bhkti Movement. He says that the Bhakti movement was a mirror of the Ismalic fundoo movement which was classless!
Dhu thanks for waking me up.
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Am reading JL Mehta's "Advanced History of Medieval India" which has this very line of reasoning in the chapter on Bhkti Movement. He says that the Bhakti movement was a mirror of the Ismalic fundoo movement which was classless!
Dhu thanks for waking me up.