Devotional Literature in South Asia: Current Research, 1985-8 Book

	List of conference members
	Preface
	List of abbreviations
	Sacred places and sites
	Govardhan, the Eater hill	3
	The Manbhaus' seat on Ramtek Hill	11
	Formulation and transmission of religious attitudes
	Singers' repertoires in western India	29
	An oral theology: Dadupanthi homilies	36
	Some aspects of the development of bhakti traditions, with especial reference to the Hindi poems attributed to Ramanand	49
	The Hindu model of social organization and the bhakti movement: the example of Vallabha's sampradaya	56
	Interaction between Islamic and Indian religious attitudes
	Sufi influence in the Ekanathi-bhagavat: some observations on the text and its historical context	67
	How a Muslim looks at Hindu bhakti	80
	Muslim devotional literature in Gujarati: Islam and bhakti	89
	The Ismaili ginans as devotional literature	101
	Literary and religious traditions in Maharashtra
	A grammar of bhakti: Pancavartika	115
	Authorship and redactorship of the Jnandev Gatha	126
	Matapitrbhakti: some aspects of the development of the Pundalika legend in Marathi literature	138
	Tukaram: the making of a saint	148
	Sadguru and the Holy Spirit	153
	Special features of the Varkari cult as regards sadhana	163
	Some particular expressions of the Sufi presence in north India
	The text of Alakh Bani	171
	Kutuban's Miragavati: its content and interpretation	179
	Krsnaite and Nath elements in the poetry of the eighteenth-century Panjabi Sinfi Bullhe Sah	190
	Some topics in the Krsna poetry of north India
	Three-three-two versus four-by-four: metrical frames for the padas of Surdas	209
	Creative enumeration in the vinaya poetry of Surdas	225
	The padas attributed to Nanddas	237
	Synoptic and sectarian bhakti in the poetry of Dhruvdas	247
	Discussions of the Rama tradition in north and north-east India
	Taranisena: a parochialised devotional motif	261
	Tulsidas and Confucius	268
	Modernisation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
	Hariscandra of Banaras and the reassessment of Vaisnava bhakti in the late nineteenth century	281
	A reinterpretation of bhakti theology: from the Pustimarg to the Brahma Kumaris	298
	Index	314