About the Book: Devotion and Dissent in Indian History
In contrast to sectarian movements across the world that have been
fundamentalist in terms of their ideology and locked in conflicts with those who
worshipped differently, dissent movements within devotional streams were
characterized by the qualities of universalism, humanism and love which cut
across communal, caste and gender lines. The primary focus of this volume is to
present the morphology of dissent within devotion. In the process, the
traditional tropes of borders and boundaries get corroded. The normally visible
communal, class, caste and gender divides are rendered fuzzy. Equally
significant is the emergence of dissent within dissent movements,