P. Govinda Pillai

Broschiertes Buch

The Bhakti Movement

Renaissance or Revivalism?

Beschreibung

This is a Comprehensive Survey of the Bhakti Movement as it sprang in South India to spread across the subcontinent in independent and multifarious manifestations yet marked with amazing commonalities.

Autor

P. Govinda Pillai (b.1926) graduated from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai. He became a full time political, social and cultural activist after his student life and was elected four times to the Kerala State Legislature, first as a representative of the Communist Party of India and later, the Communist Party of India (M). He was the Chief Editor of Desabhimani, the CPI(M)'s mouthpiece in Malayalam, for more than two decades. He has headed many institutions including the Kerala State Film Corporation, Centre for Imaging Technology, Kerala State Press Akademi etc. He is the author of about 35 books based on a range of subjects including Marxist asesthetics, literarture and culture, social movements and science.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 361g
• ISBN-13: 9781032364735
• ISBN-10: 1032364734
• Artikelnr.: 71235127