A History of the Dasnami Naga Sannyasis

Jadunath Sarkar, Ananda Bhattacharyya (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

260 Seiten

2024
Manohar Publishers and Distributors (Verlag)
9789350981986 (ISBN)

Infos

The cult of the naked Nagas has a long history. The present volume aims to explore new findings which are available in various archives and repositories in order to fill up the lacuna in Jadunath Sarkar’s work on the subject as elaborated in the present introduction.

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Organized Naga military activity originally flourished under state patronage. During the latter half of the sixteenth century and the early part of the seventeenth century, a number of bands of fighting ascetics formed into akharas with sectarian names and identities.The Dasnami Sannyasis constitute perhaps the most powerful monastic order which has played an important part in the history of India.

Autor

Sir Jadunath Sarkar (1870-1958) was one of the greatest historians of Medieval and Modern India in the first half of the twentieth century. Ananda Bhattacharyya is Assistant Director of the West Bengal State Archives. His many publications include Adivasi Resistance in Early Colonial India (2017); Remembering Komagata Maru: Official Reports and Contemporary Accounts (2016).

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 14.05.2024
• Verlagsort: New Delhi
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 203 x 254 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus
• ISBN-13: 9789350981986 / 9789350981986
• Zustand: Neuware