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Title

Images of Kabīr / edited by Monika Horstmann.

Publication

New Delhi : Manohar, 2002.

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Additional Authors

• Horstmann, Monika.
• Kabir, active 15th century.

Description

vi, 248 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

Contributed articles on life and works of Kabir, 15th century Hindi devotional poet, presented at an international symposium commemorating the six-hundred anniversary of Kabir held at Heidelberg in 1999.

Series Statement

South Asian studies / South Asia Institute, New Delhi Branch, Heidelberg University ; no. 40

Uniform Title

South Asian studies ; no. 40.

Subject

• Kabir, active 15th century > Criticism and interpretation > Congresses

Note

• Errata slip inserted.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• Includes passages in Hindi.

Contents

Introduction / Monika Horstmann -- Uses of Kabir: missionary writings and civilisational differences / Pradeep Bandyopadhyay -- Marco Della Tomba and the Kabir-Panth / David N. Lorenzen -- Kabir's pads in 1556 / Winand M. Callewaert -- Kabir's language: notes on data from selected text / Stuart McGregor -- Sorrows of Kabir / Namwar Singh -- Arsonist: the last days of Kabir / Kiran Nagarkar -- Kabir and contemporary Hindi poetry / Kedarnath Singh -- Hazariprasad Dvivedi's Kabir / Monika Horstmann -- Kabir and the Nathpanth / Mariola Offredi -- Kabir's secrets for householders: truths and rumours among Rajasthani Naths / Daniel Gold -- Kabir in literature by and for Muslims / Peter Gaeffke -- Kabir and mystic poetry in Urdu / Sadiqur Rahman Kidwai -- Contemporary legacy of Kabir: a Hindu Sufi branch and its relations with the Kabir-Panth / Thomas Dahnhardt -- Problems of authenticity in the Kabir texts transmitted orally in Rajasthan today / Bahadur Singh -- Homespun threads of dignity and protest: songs of Kabir in rural Rajasthan / Nancy M. Martin -- Kabir-Panthis in Kanpur: from sampradaya to Dalit identity / Maren Bellwinkel-Schempp -- Sants and the struggle against Brahmin dominance / Shukdeo Singh

Call Number

*OKTM 03-8597

ISBN

8173044635

LCCN

2002302332

OCLC

51162590

Title

Images of Kabīr / edited by Monika Horstmann.

Imprint

New Delhi : Manohar, 2002.

Series

South Asian studies / South Asia Institute, New Delhi Branch, Heidelberg University ; no. 40

South Asian studies ; no. 40.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language

Includes passages in Hindi.

Added Author

Horstmann, Monika.

Kabir, active 15th century.

Research Call Number

*OKTM 03-8597