Kesavan Veluthat in Conversation with Manu Devadevan: Bhakti and the State

Kesavan Veluthat is a prominent historian who has done groundbreaking work on the precolonial history of South India. In the second part of the three-part conversation with fellow historian Manu Devadevan, Veluthat talks about his paper on the Bhakti movement in South India, jointly authored with M.G.S. Narayanan, where they argued, without discounting its literary and religious aspects, that the Tamil Bhakti movement was a state-sponsored project. The conversation then moves on to how his doctoral work on the political structure of early medieval South India reflected a shift from the dominant naturalist historiography.
For the first and third parts of the conversation, go to
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