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Religious Processes: The Puranas and the Making of a Regional Tradition (Hardcover)
by Kunal Chakrabarti (Author)

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Hardcover: 378 pages
Publisher: OUP India (Mar 2000)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0195649893
ISBN-13: 978-0195649895
Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 14 x 3.3 cm
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Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,915,659 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The volume traces the evolution of a process of interaction between brahmanism and the indigenous social groups of Bengal during the early medieval period. Following the logic of cultural negotiation implicit in the Puranas composed in Bengal, the book unravels a pattern that governed this relationship of reciprocity, contestation and domination.

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Traces the evolution of the interaction between Brahmanism and the indigenous social groups of Bengal during the early medieval period. Following the logic of cultural negotiation implicit in the Puranas composed in Bengal, the book unravels a pattern that governed this relationship.