Sants and the struggle against Brahmin dominance / Shukdeo Singh. Uses of Kabir: missionary writings and civilisational differences / Pradeep Bandyopadhyay -- Marco Della Tomba and the Kabir-Panth / David N. Lorenzen -- Kabir's pads in 1556 / Winand M. Callewaert -- Kabir's language: notes on data from selected text / Stuart McGregor -- Sorrows of Kabir / Namwar Singh -- Arsonist: the last days of Kabir / Kiran Nagarkar -- Kabir and contemporary Hindi poetry / Kedarnath Singh -- Hazariprasad Dvivedi's Kabir / Monika Horstmann -- Kabir and the Nathpanth / Mariola Offredi -- Kabir's secrets for householders: truths and rumours among Rajasthani Naths / Daniel Gold -- Kabir in literature by and for Muslims / Peter Gaeffke -- Kabir and mystic poetry in Urdu / Sadiqur Rahman Kidwai -- Contemporary legacy of Kabir: a Hindu Sufi branch and its relations with the Kabir-Panth / Thomas Dahnhardt -- Problems of authenticity in the Kabir texts transmitted orally in Rajasthan today / Bahadur Singh -- Homespun threads of dignity and protest: songs of Kabir in rural Rajasthan / Nancy M. Martin -- Kabir-Panthis in Kanpur: from sampradaya to Dalit identity / Maren Bellwinkel-Schempp -- Sants and the struggle against Brahmin dominance / Shukdeo Singh.
Summary:
Contributed articles on life and works of Kabir, 15th century Hindi devotional poet, presented at an international symposium commemorating the six-hundred anniversary of Kabir held at Heidelberg in 1999.
Series:
South Asian studies / South Asia Institute, New Delhi Branch, Heidelberg University ; no. 40
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