Bhakti Movement

3 notes tagged Bhakti Movement.

• History

  Bhakti-Sufi Traditions: Siddhas and Lingayats

  Basavanna's Lingayats, Tamil Nayanars and Alvars, Nath Siddhas, and the Chishti and Suhrawardi Sufi orders: caste, devotion and state power in medieval India.

• History

  North Indian Bhakti Saints and Chronology

  Kabir's disputed guru, Guru Nanak's real dates, Chaitanya and Mirabai: verified facts on north India's Bhakti saints and their true chronology.

• Art & Culture

  Bhakti and Sufi Traditions: The North Indian Saint-Poets

  Kabir addressed a formless God and Tulsidas a personal one, and the difference between them is exactly the nirguna-saguna line UPSC's Bhakti questions are actually testing.