Rebellion in Verse : Resistance and Devotion in the Tamil Bhakti Movement

Name: Rebellion in Verse
Brand: Penguin Random House India
SKU: 9780143474005
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ISBN: 9780143474005

by Raghavan Srinivasan

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Format Hardback

ISBN-10 0143474006

ISBN-13 9780143474005

Publisher Penguin Random House India

Imprint Penguin Viking

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jan 9th, 2026

Print length 304 Pages

Weight 540 grams

Dimensions 24.30 x 16.30 x 3.10 cms

Product Classification: Middle Eastern history Middle Eastern history

KSh 6,600.00

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It would soon ripple through history with the force of a tidal wave.

In the Tamil region in medieval times, a quiet revolution unfolded. It came to be known as the Bhakti movement. Appar’s hymn above exemplifies its spirit of rebellion against Vedic rigidity and ritual. Rebellion in Verse unfolds a journey that goes back to the sixth century CE?a time when many yearned for a reprieve from the constraints of Vedic orthodoxy and caste hierarchies. The Tamil Bhakti movement emerged as their clarion call, a grassroots surge of devotion that redefined spirituality and the social fabric itself. The saints of this movement were poets of the people, composing their hymns in Tamil and their verses, brimming with simplicity and profundity, wrestled divine wisdom from the elite grip of Sanskrit and handed it to the masses. Change had dawned. It would soon ripple through history with the force of a tidal wave.

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