Religion and public memory
Subtitle: a cultural history of Saint Namdev in India
By: Christian Lee Novetzke.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780231141840; 9780231512565
Subjects: Nāmadeva, -- 1270-1350 -- Influence; Hinduism and culture -- India -- Maharashtra; Bhakti
Description: "Christian Lee Novetzke considers the way social memory coheres around the figure of Namdev from the sixteenth century to the present, examining the practices that situate Namdev's memory in multiple historical publics. Focusing primarily on Maharashtra and drawing on ethnographies of devotional performance, archival materials, scholarly historiography, and popular media, especially film, Novetzke vividly illustrates how religious communities in India preserve their pasts and, in turn, create their own historical narratives."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.