In India, religion continues to be an absolutely vital source for social as
well as personal identity. All manner of groups-- political, occupational, and
social--remain grounded in specific religious communities. This book analyses
the development of the modern Hindu and Sikh communities in north India starting
from about the fifteenth century, when the dominant bhakti tradition of Hinduism
became divided into two currents: the saguni and the nirguni. Hardbound