The Life of Hinduism

a dalit poet-saint. 205 Sri Govardhanpur deny it. Pursuing the new historical connections first suggested by B. R. Ghera, a reti ...

206. caste fore something revolutionary in its Indian context—or is it only spiritual, in which case it can coexist with brahmin ...

a dalit poet-saint. 207 what Ravidas calls on several occasions “the bonds of love” (AG10, 15, 18). That friend, of course, is G ...

208. caste Considering the liturgical importance of Ravidas, it is surprising that for years none of the verses most likely to h ...

a dalit poet-saint. 209 entitle the Guru Ravidas Granth. The title has a familiar ring. Ghera’s idea was that when this Granth e ...

210. caste One expression of this process of conceptual clarification is an enormous con- struction effort long under way on the ...

a dalit poet-saint. 211 they have their own way of charting the territory that ties them, through Ravidas, to the wider world. T ...

212. caste yet regard each as ultimate for the period during which that god is at the forefront of the believer’s attention.^28 ...

a dalit poet-saint. 213 No one equals someone so pure and devoted— not priests, nor heroes, nor parasolled kings. As the lotus l ...

214. caste my distant home, where everything is right. That imperial kingdom is rich and secure, where none are third or second— ...

a dalit poet-saint. 215 (Mathura: Fyam KafiPress, 1970); the Mirabaisection occurs on pp. 67–81. An entirely revised and even mo ...

216. caste tearing open his chest to reveal their images ensconced within. See K. C. Aryan and Su- bhashini Aryan, Hanuman in Ar ...

a dalit poet-saint. 217 F. Max Müller, Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion(London: Long- mans, Green, 1882), 277. In ...

218 14. A Brahmin Woman Revenge Herself lalitambika antarjanam This essay was previously published as “Revenge Herself,” in The ...

a brahmin woman. 219 could have relationships with visiting husbands that could be begun and ended with- out formality. But a di ...

220. caste suffering souls, voiceless, but with thunder and lightning in their hearts. Were they commanding me to record their l ...

a brahmin woman. 221 honor it. Now I no longer wish to be known as a human being, particularly a woman. One lesson I have learnt ...

222. caste prayer, while our hearts are filled with the sensuous fragrance of mango blooms. And so we wait...days, months, even ...

a brahmin woman. 223 “I too would have suffered in silence like all those other Nambudiri women ex- cept for what happened unexp ...

224. caste “And one day my sister-in-law was peremptory with her order: ‘Don’t step into the kitchen.’ “I still cannot understan ...