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Between Axiality and Modernity _ Dr Ravi Sinha _ New Socialist Initiative
Between Axiality and Modernity
Bhakti Era as the Plebeian Plateau in the Civilizational Landscape of India
• Ravi Sinha
We have by now devoted several sessions to mapping the millennial trajectory of the Bhakti Movement across the history and the cultural geography of the subcontinent. Starting with the Tamil lands in the 7th century we followed Bhakti performing the pradakshina of the cultural landmass of the subcontinent, crossing the Vindhyas in its northward journey sometime in the 13-14th century. Our endeavour has been to understand the role of Bhakti in shaping the cultural and the civilizational mind of India. This, in turn, has been motivated by task of making sense of the role this...
Bhakti Era as the Plebeian Plateau in the Civilizational Landscape of India
• Ravi Sinha
We have by now devoted several sessions to mapping the millennial trajectory of the Bhakti Movement across the history and the cultural geography of the subcontinent. Starting with the Tamil lands in the 7th century we followed Bhakti performing the pradakshina of the cultural landmass of the subcontinent, crossing the Vindhyas in its northward journey sometime in the 13-14th century. Our endeavour has been to understand the role of Bhakti in shaping the cultural and the civilizational mind of India. This, in turn, has been motivated by task of making sense of the role this...
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Bhakti Era in North India _The Aftermath (1700 - Present) _ Discussion _ Part 5 : Dr Ravi Sinha
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Bhakti Era in North India _The Aftermath (1700 - Present) _ Discussion _ Part 5 : Dr Ravi Sinha
Bhakti Era in North India _ The Aftermath (1700 - Present) _ Presentation - Part 4: Dr. Ravi Sinha
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Bhakti Era in North India _ The Aftermath (1700 - Present) • Dr. Ravi Sinha Having outlined the history and the main features of the Bhakti Era in North India (1400-1800) in the previous session we now move on to an assessment of its aftermath. The period between the peak of the Mughal Empire (Aurangzeb’s death, 1707) and consolidation of British colonialism in the subcontinent - a period in wh...
Bhakti Era in North India _ Discussion (Hindi) _ Part 3 : Dr. Ravi Sinha
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Bhakti Era in North India _ Discussion (Hindi) _ Part 3 : Dr. Ravi Sinha
Bhakti Era in North India _ Discussion (English) _ Part 2 : Dr. Ravi Sinha
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Bhakti Era in North India _ Discussion (English) _ Part 2 : Dr. Ravi Sinha
Bhakti Era in North India _ Presentation _ Part 1: Dr. Ravi Sinha
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Bhakti Streams of Religious Movements in Medieval North India • Ravi Sinha Outline In this session our discussion of the Bhakti Movement moves to medieval North India. It is often stated that the Bhakti Movement was born in the Tamil land in the 6th -7 th centuries and over the next millennium it made its way to the northern and eastern parts of the subcontinent. In his famous Patel Lectures of...
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Dear Friends, 0:20 I would like to share with you this talk ("Between Axiality and Modernity") on a possible framework for looking at the millennial trajectory of Indian civilization. It is a bit long, but I still hope that you will be able to spare some time for it and also get back to me with your comments and critique. Hope to hear back from you.
Excellent presentation. It provides a new framework to understand Indian mind for the political task. It provides new and in-depth insights on cultural and social mind. Congratulations to speaker for this wonderful presentation.
A very comprehensive and informative lecture. Hats off to Ravi Sinha ji for the extensive research and laying of the ground for the "onset" of the Bhakti era. Few observations on this presentation: a) The idea of a "lok mānas/लोक मानस - the Indian mind" seems like what is called a very big generalization, a reification. In more serious studies of culture, intellectual histories etc , afaik, broad and sweeping characterizations as "Indian mind," "Indian way of thinking," etc are approached with more care - and are not introduced casually. Just refer to debates on the provenance of the word 'Hindu' and the character/composition of the term 'Hinduism'. Is the Kerala mind the same as the Manipuri mind...? etc b) The idea of "Vaishnavite bhakti greatly helped by Akbar's rule" - it might be true that royal patronage, so to say, might have helped the profile and public image of Vaishnavite bhakti. But do we have empirical evidence that it numerically advanced the reach of this Bhakti among the country's masses? Or is it a conjecture from, say, the example of Aśoka and Buddhism (which has its own trajectory and logic)? c) Thanks for the quote from Satish Chandra. But this supposed discouragement or setback of "scientific temper" on account of so-called excessive religiosity sounds more like a trope than something backed by hard evidence, or at least a systematic working out based on deduction. What scientific temper did it stultify or discourage? What existed, as science and technology, till the Bhakti period - and how was that nourished and established earlier? Maybe the answers will emerge in the following videos. I will make time for them.
Thoughtful discussion on Bhakti Era in North India. Thank you for speaker and participants.
Very thoughtful lecture. It provides an understanding on Bhakti Era in North India. Must watch. Congratulations to speaker.