Religious Process: The Puranas and the Making of a Regional Tradition (Oip)

by Kunal Chakrabarti

This book traces the evolution of a process of interaction between Brahmanism and the indigenous social groups of Bengal during the early medieval period. Following the logic of cultural negotiation implicit in the Puranas composed composed in Bengal, the book unravels a pattern that governed this relationship of recirpocity, contestation and domination. Two significant methodoligical issues have been addressed--the manner in which didactic Sanskritic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199482543
• ISBN13: 9780199482542
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.4"