Article
Review of: Religious Process: The Purānas and the Making of a Regional Tradition, by Kunal Chakrabarti
The Indian Economic and Social History Review
(2002)
Abstract
Professor Chakrabarti's thesis is that in the early medieval period, brahmans in Bengal engaged in a creative process of 'negotiation of meanings' between the 'great', pan-Indian traditions of 'brahmanism' and 'little', local Bengali traditions.
Keywords
- Brahmanism,
- The Puranas
Disciplines
Publication Date
December, 2002
DOI
10.1177/001946460203900411
Publisher Statement
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Citation Information
Indian Economic Social History Review December 2002 vol. 39 no. 4 450-451