Unforgetting Chaitanya

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Unforgetting Chaitanya is written by Assistant Professor of Hindu and South Asian Studies Varuni Bhatia and published by Oxford University Press, USA. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0190686278 (ISBN 10) and 9780190686277 (ISBN 13).

Varuni Bhatia examines late-19th-century transformations of Vaishnavism - a vibrant and multifaceted religious tradition emanating from the Krishna devotee Chaitnaya (1486-1533) - in Bengal. Drawing on an extensive body of hitherto unexamined archival material, Bhatia finds that both Vaishnava modernisers and secular voices among the educated middle-class invoked Chaitanya, portraying him simultaneously as a local hero, a Hindu reformer, and as God almighty. She argues that these claims should be understood in relation to efforts to recover a 'pure' Bengali culture and history at a time of rising anti-colonial sentiment.