Below is an overview of some of the publications that have come out of the Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavism Research Programme.
Professor Måns Broo is currently working on a four-volume critical edition of the Hari-bhakti-vilāsa, with an annotated translation, and detailed introduction. The first volume was published with Brill in February 2023.
This forthcoming publication is based on papers given at the Building of Vṛndāvana conference held in 2017 that explored the complex history of Vṛndāvana’s early modern origins.
The small town of Vṛndāvana is today one of the most vibrant places of pilgrimage in northern India. Throngs of pilgrims travel there each year to honour the sacred land of Kṛṣṇa’s youth and to visit many of its temples. The Building of Vṛndāvana explores the complex history of this town’s early modern origins. Bringing together scholars from various disciplines to examine history, architecture, art, ritual, theology, and literature in this pivotal period, the book examines how these various disciplines were used to create, develop, and map Vṛndāvana as the most prominent place of pilgrimage for devotees of Kṛṣṇa.
The publication is edited by Dr Rembert Lutjeharms and Professor Kiyokazu Okita. Contributors are: Guy L. Beck, Måns Broo, David Buchta, John Stratton Hawley, Barbara A. Holdrege, Rembert Lutjeharms, Cynthia D. Packert, and Heidi Pauwels.
This book, edited by Dr Lucian Wong and Professor Ferdinando Sardella, highlights the significant roles – religious, social, and cultural – that a prominent Hindu devotional current played in the lives of wide and diverse sections of colonial Bengali society. The book brings together scholars from across the disciplines of social and intellectual history, philology, theology, and anthropology to systematically investigate Vaiṣṇavism in colonial Bengal.
In Witness to Marvels Professor Tony Stewart traces the development of a unique genre of Sufi-inspired Bengali romances called pir kathas, whose protagonists and plots are wholly fictive. For five centuries these fabulations have parodied indigenous and Hindu textual traditions. Both mimicking and mocking, these parodies adopted a subjunctive tone, exploring a magical world of ‘what-if’. They created an Islam-inflected space within a traditional Bengali cultural environment without trying to legislate what ideally ‘should be’ according to tropes common to Islamic history, theology, and law.
In this book, Dr Rembert Lutjeharms examines the practice of poetry in the devotional Vaiṣṇava tradition inspired by Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya (1486-1533), through a detailed study of the Sanskrit poetic works of Kavikarṇapūra, one of the most significant sixteenth-century Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava poets and theologians.
In this book, Dr Rembert Lutjeharms examines the practice of poetry in the devotional Vaiṣṇava tradition inspired by Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya (1486-1533), through a detailed study of the Sanskrit poetic works of Kavikarṇapūra, one of the most significant sixteenth-century Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava poets and theologians.
This book presents a critically edited text of the Rādhā Tantra by Professor Måns Broo, based on manuscripts in India, Nepal and Bangladesh, as well as an annotated translation. The critical edition is prefaced by an introduction that situates the text in its social and historical context and discusses its significance.
The Journal of Hindu Studies published a special issue on ‘Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavism and Modernity’ that includes articles on ‘Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavism and Modernity’, ‘Bengali Vaishnavism in Court: the Gaudiya Math’s Crisis of Succession’, ‘The Psychic Chaitanya: Global Occult and Vaishnavism in Fin de Siècle Bengal’, ‘Piety in Print: The Vaishnava Periodicals of Colonial Bengal’, and ‘Noblemen, Spies, and a Hindu Monk Going to War: Notes on Swami B. H. Bon in New York, 1940–41’.
Professor Måns Broo is currently working on a four-volume critical edition of the Hari-bhakti-vilāsa, with an annotated translation, and detailed introduction. The first volume was published with Brill in February 2023.
This forthcoming publication is based on papers given at the Building of Vṛndāvana conference held in 2017 that explored the complex history of Vṛndāvana’s early modern origins. The book includes a collection of chapters from leading scholars within the field and brings together the latest research on the topic. The publication is edited by Dr Rembert Lutjeharms and Professor Kiyokazu Okita.
In Witness to Marvels Professor Tony Stewart traces the development of a unique genre of Sufi-inspired Bengali romances called pir kathas, whose protagonists and plots are wholly fictive. For five centuries these fabulations have parodied indigenous and Hindu textual traditions. Both mimicking and mocking, these parodies adopted a subjunctive tone, exploring a magical world of ‘what-if’. They created an Islam-inflected space within a traditional Bengali cultural environment without trying to legislate what ideally ‘should be’ according to tropes common to Islamic history, theology, and law.
This book, edited by Dr Lucian Wong and Professor Ferdinando Sardella, highlights the significant roles – religious, social, and cultural – that a prominent Hindu devotional current played in the lives of wide and diverse sections of colonial Bengali society. The book brings together scholars from across the disciplines of social and intellectual history, philology, theology, and anthropology to systematically investigate Vaiṣṇavism in colonial Bengal.
In this book, Dr Rembert Lutjeharms examines the practice of poetry in the devotional Vaiṣṇava tradition inspired by Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya (1486-1533), through a detailed study of the Sanskrit poetic works of Kavikarṇapūra, one of the most significant sixteenth-century Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava poets and theologians.
This book presents a critically edited text of the Rādhā Tantra by Professor Måns Broo, based on manuscripts in India, Nepal and Bangladesh, as well as an annotated translation. The critical edition is prefaced by an introduction that situates the text in its social and historical context and discusses its significance.
The Journal of Hindu Studies published a special issue on ‘Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavism and Modernity’ that includes articles on ‘Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavism and Modernity’, ‘Bengali Vaishnavism in Court: the Gaudiya Math’s Crisis of Succession’, ‘The Psychic Chaitanya: Global Occult and Vaishnavism in Fin de Siècle Bengal’, ‘Piety in Print: The Vaishnava Periodicals of Colonial Bengal’, and ‘Noblemen, Spies, and a Hindu Monk Going to War: Notes on Swami B. H. Bon in New York, 1940–41’.
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