Day: May 29, 2016

EMERGENCE OF THE BHAKTI MOVEMENT The bhakti movement which influenced large number of people during 14th-17th centuries in North India appeared due to a number of political, socio-economic and religious factors. Political Factors for the Rise of the Bhakti Movement It has been pointed out that as the popular bhakti movement could not take root […]

INTRODUCTION Bhakti as a religious concept means devotional surrender to a personally conceived supreme God for attaining salvation. The origin of this doctrine has been traced to both the Brahmanical and buddhist traditions of ancient India and to various scripture such as Gita. But it was for the first time in South India between the […]