By Varuni Bhatia
Who is a real Vaishnava? within the past due 19th century, this query assumed urgency as debates round questions of authenticity seemed prominently within the Bengali public sphere. those debates went on for years, even a long time, inflicting unbridgeable rifts in own friendships and tarnishing reputations of proven students. Underlying those debates used to be the query of authoritative Bengali Vaishnavism and its function within the long term structure of Bengali tradition and society. At stake, argues Bhatia, was once the very nature and composition of an indigenously-derived modernity inscribed during the politics of authenticity, which allowed an influential element of Hindu, upper-caste Bengalis to excavate their very own explicitly Hindu pasts so as to discover a people's historical past, a non secular reformer, a casteless Hindu sect, the richest examples of Bengali literature, and a cosmopolitan expression of monotheistic religion.
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