Love in the Time of Scholarship

Download or read book Love in the Time of Scholarship written by Anand Venkatkrishnan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-12-03 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love in the Time of Scholarship concerns the history of scholarly life in precolonial India, revealing the ways that popular religious movements from the wider world infiltrated and shaped scholarship produced in elite traditions of learning. Author Anand Venkatkrishnan shows how specific religious traditions, in their very local, regional incarnations, influenced scholarly work in unexpected ways.