The Bhakti Movement is a pervasive cultural movement which appeared in various forms of cultural expression including religion, philosophy, language, art and literature.
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As a result of the Bhakti Movement, the process of building up of various regional languages quickened and the foundation was laid for the growth of modern Indian languages. Free from Sanskrit, Pali, Prakrit and Apabransha, literatures in regional languages entered into a new phase of growth and development. Consequently, Indian literature and culture broke the shackles of feudalism and seem to have headed towards a more creative, people’s culture. Bhakti poetry, liberated from the formalism of ancient poetics, feudalistic culture and form the courtly atmosphere, is an expression of people’s culture – their emotions in their own languages. Cultural awareness, ideologies and sensibilities expressed in the Bhakti Movement and its literature are more closely related to culture and society of its own times than to ancient traditions of Indian culture and literature.
Reproduced from:
Manager Pandey, and Alka Tyagi. “Bhakti Poetry: Its Relevance and Significance.” Indian Literature, vol. 45, no. 6 (206), 2001, pp. 129–38.
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Practice Question: What was the impact of the Bhakti Movement on contemporary language and poetry? – 150 words
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