Mirabai
The Making of a Saint
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 5 October 2023
- ISBN 9780195153903
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages400 pages
- Size 158x235x23 mm
- Weight 567 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 15 halftones 543
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Short description:
Mirabai, an iconic sixteenth-century Indian poet, 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. In Mirabai, Nancy M. 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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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. Defying attempts to constrain and even kill her, she could not be silenced. 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. 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. This book examines Mirabai's place as both insider and outsider to the developing strands of devotional Hinduism and her role in contested terrain of debates around the education and independence of women and the crafting of Indian and Hindu identities.
Mirabai offers a comprehensive and multi-layered portrait of this remarkable and still controversial woman, who continues to be a source of inspiration and catalyst for self-actualization for spiritual seekers, artists, activists, and so many others in India and around the world today.
This book is valuable today for its knowledge and insights into the life of a Hindu woman poet as it demonstrates the power of devotion that transcends local contexts and inspires for diverse conversations.
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Note on Transliteration and Dates
Introduction: In Search of Mirabai
Chapter 1: Embodying Devotion in a Woman's Body: Mirabai among the Saints
Chapter 2: Participation and Transformation: Mira as Rapjut Renouncer, Varkari Devotee, and Pativrata of God
Chapter 3: History, Heroism, and the Politics of Identity: Mirabai in Nineteenth-Century Colonial India
Chapter 4: Weaver Woman and Lover Extraordinaire: Romance and Resistance in Rural Rajasthan
Chapter 5: Mobilizing Mirabai, Mobilizing Women in the Struggle for Independence
Chapter 6: Cultural Icon for a Nation in the Making
Conclusion
Selected Bibliography
Index
Mirabai: The Making of a Saint
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