... Bhakti Raihana Tyabji Gandhi self-representation gopi tradition ...

... In 1924, Raihana Tyabji composed a small book of Bhakti devotionalism entitled The Heart of a Gopi . This chapter considers how far it may be read as a kind of personal narrative, an evocation of the self. Does the referencing of an established narrative tradition give the author’s feelings...

... of a Gopi . This chapter considers how far it may be read as a kind of personal narrative, an evocation of the self. Does the referencing of an established narrative tradition give the author’s feelings and experiences, especially as a Muslim woman devoted to Krishna at a time of increasing religious...