Forgotten friends : monks, marriages, and memories of Northeast India
Chatterjee, IndraniAuthor
This text traces the changing, long-term history of the vast Brahmaputra valley region. Examining the political and economic order of Buddhist, Vaisnava, Saiva, Tantric, and Sufis in the northeast, this is a story of how a modern Indian nation forgot its cosmopolitan past and gave itself a new history by forgetting the large numbers of societies centred on women.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
This text traces the changing, long-term history of the vast Brahmaputra valley region. Examining the political and economic order of Buddhist, Vaisnava, Saiva, Tantric, and Sufis in the northeast, this is a story of how a modern Indian nation forgot its cosmopolitan past and gave itself a new history by forgetting the large numbers of societies centred on women.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on Apr. 24, 2013).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Buddhism
Hinduism
Sufism
Women and religion
Religion
Philosophy & Religion
Buddhism