Love in the Time of Scholarship concerns the history of scholarly life in precolonial India, revealing the ways that popular religious movements from the wider world infiltrated and shaped scholarship produced in elite traditions of learning. Author Anand Venkatkrishnan shows how specific religious traditions, in their very local, regional incarnations, influenced scholarly work in unexpected ways.
Love in the Time of Scholarship concerns the history of scholarly life in precolonial India, revealing the ways that popular religious movements from the wider world infiltrated and shaped scholarship produced in elite traditions of learning. Author Anand Venkatkrishnan shows how specific religious traditions, in their very local, regional incarnations, influenced scholarly work in unexpected ways.
Anand Venkatkrishnan is Assistant Professor of the History of Religion in South Asia at the University of Chicago Divinity School. He specializes in the study of Hinduism, Sanskrit literature, and Indian philosophy. His research considers the history of scholarly life in premodern India and in the present, and he is currently working on a social history of American Indology.
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Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Across the Nilgiris Chapter 2: The Name of God in the World of Men Chapter 3: Family Ties Chapter 4: Threads of Bhakti Conclusion Bibliography Index
Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Across the Nilgiris Chapter 2: The Name of God in the World of Men Chapter 3: Family Ties Chapter 4: Threads of Bhakti Conclusion Bibliography Index
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