Devoted to the Goddess : the life and work of Ramprasad /
In this book, Malcolm McLean examines the evidence for the life of Ramprasad, and finding little in the historical record, deconstructs the important early biographics, which contain material that is largely legendary in nature. A founder figure emerges whose "life," modeled on that of the...
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| Format: | Książka |
| Język: | English Bengali |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
c1998.
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| Seria: | SUNY series in Hindu studies.
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Spis treści:
- 1. The Search for the Historical Ramprasad
- 2. The Deconstruction of the Tradition
- 3. Reading the Life of Ramprasad
- 4. Ramprasad's Mad Bitch Goddess
- 5. Ramprasad's Tantric Goddess
- 6. The Goddess as Ramprasad's Daughter
- 7. Reading the Songs of Ramprasad
- Appendix. Isvarachandra Gupta's Biography of Ramprasad.