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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Note on Transliteration xi
5. Introduction: The Power of Bhakti 1
6. SITUATIONS
7. 1. Affect and Identity in Early Bhakti: Kāraikkāl Ammaiyār as Poet, Servant, and Pēy 25
8. 2. Religious Equality, Social Conservatism: The Shiva-Bhakti Community as Imagined in Early Kannada Hagiographies 38
9. 3. Caste and Women in Early Modern India: Krishna Bhakti in Sixteenth-Century Vrindavan 49
10. 4. “Are You All Coming to the Esplanade?”: Devotional Music and Contingent Politics in West Bengal 63
11. 5. All the Valmikis Are One: Bhakti as Majoritarian Project 74
12. MEDIATIONS
13. 6. The Political Theology of Bhakti, or When Devotionalism Meets Vernacularization 85
14. 7. Bhakti as Elite Cultural Practice: Digambar Jain Bhakti in Early Modern North India 95
15. 8. Lover and Yogi in Punjabi Sufi Poetry: The Story of Hir and Ranjha 105
16. 9. Illuminating the Formless: God, King, and Devotion in an Assamese Illustrated Manuscript 118
17. 10. Bhakti as Relationship: Drawing Form and Personality from the Formless 134
18. 11. Bhakti the Mediator John Stratton Hawley 142
19. SOLIDARITIES
20. 12. Singing in Protest: Early Modern Hindu-Muslim Encounters in Bengali Hagiographies of Chaitanya 159
21. 13. Bhakti and Power from the Inside: A Devotee’s Reading of What Chaitanya Achieved 171
22. 14. Fall from Grace?: Caste, Bhakti, and Politics in Late Eighteenth-Century Marwar 181
23. 15. The Ties That Bind: Individual, Family, and Community in Northwestern Bhakti 192
24. 16. Waterscape and Memory: The Āīna-i Tirhut of Bihārī Lāl “Fitrat” and the Politics of a Bhakti Past 203
25. 17. Bhakti in the Classroom: What Do American Students Hear? 214
26. Bibliography 225
27. List of Contributors 245
28. Index 249
29. Global South Asia Series 257