Bhakti saints won the affection of peasants so the kings tried to win their support too. In Karnataka, Basavanna, ... In North India, there were Ramananda, Kabir and Tulsidas.

Bhakti saints won the affection of peasants so the kings tried to win their support too. The Bhakti movement emerged between the 7th and ... In North India, there were Ramananda, ...

Guru Ravidass, one of the most famous so-called untouchable sages of the 15th-16th century, articulated an alternative genre of bhakti that challenged caste-based social exclusion.

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I like to think of Rabindranath Tagore as the last of the millennium-long line of the Bhakti poets. M.K. Gandhi was no poet, though his embattled life can easily inspire an epic. I tend to think of ...

The idea of songs composed and sung specifically for the act of walking by local women took me back to reading about saints in medieval India, such as Akka Mahadevi, Lal Ded and Meera, who chose ...

Chennai: Telangana governor Tamilisai Soundararajan on Sunday said that spiritualism and bhakti saints had paved the way for the development of Tamil language. Tamilisai, who offered special ...

Speaking of the power of women, I am reminded of the trail-blazing role of women in the powerful Bhakti movement, that swept across India between the 9th and the 17th centuries.

Relics of a spiritual guru from Mumbai, known as Maiji by his followers, have found a place at spiritual organisation Bhakti Marga’s one-of-its-kind Saints of India Museum at Springen, Germany.

Union Minister Pralhad Joshi lauded saint-poet Kanakadasa for advocating an egalitarian society. At a Kanaka Jayanti programme in Dharwad, Joshi said Kanakadasa was respected by all communities ...