Mirabai: The Making of a Saint Martin Nancy M.
Mirabai: The Making of a Saint Martin Nancy M. Mirabai, an iconic sixteenth-century Indian poet-saint, is renowned for her unwavering love of God, her disregard for social hierarchies and gendered…
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Mirabai: The Making of a Saint Martin Nancy M.
Mirabai, an iconic sixteenth-century Indian poet-saint, is renowned for her unwavering love of God, her disregard for social hierarchies and gendered notions of honor and shame, and her challenge to familial, feudal, and religious authorities. Though verifiable facts regarding her life are few, her fame spread across social, linguistic, and religious boundaries, and stories about her multiplied across the subcontinent and the centuries.In Mirabai, Nancy M. Defying attempts to constrain and even kill her, she could not be silenced.
This book examines Mirabai's place as both insider and outsider to the developing strands of devotional Martin traces the story of this immensely popular Indian saint from the earliest manuscript references to her through colonial and nationalist developments to scholarly and popular portrayals in the decades leading up to Indian independence.
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