Unforgetting Chaitanya —— Vaishnavism and Cultures of Devotion in Colonial Bengal

----- 难忘的柴塔尼亚：殖民地孟加拉邦的毗湿奴教和奉献文化

ISBN: 9780190686246 出版年：2017 页码：313 Bhatia, Varuni Oxford University Press

In Unforgetting Chaitanya, Varuni Bhatia examines late-nineteenth-century transformations of Vaishnavism--a vibrant and multifaceted religious tradition emanating from the Krishna devotee Chaitnaya (1486-1533)-in Bengal. Drawing on an extensive body of hitherto unexamined archival material, Bhatia finds that both Vaishnava modernizers and secular voices among the educated middle-class invoked Chaitanya, portraying him simultaneously as a local hero, a Hindu reformer, and as God almighty. She argues that these claims should be understood in relation to efforts to recover a "pure" Bengali culture and history at a time of rising anti-colonial sentiment.