Janabai
Sant Janābāi was a Marāthi religious Sant and poet in the Hindu tradition in India, who was born likely in the seventh or the eighth decade of the 13th century. Under the caste system the couple belonged to the matang. After her mother died, her father took her to Pandharpur.
Janabai
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Sant Janābāi was a Marāthi religious Sant and poet in the Hindu tradition in India, who was born likely in the seventh or the eighth decade of the 13th century. Under the caste system the couple belonged to the matang. After her mother died, her father took her to Pandharpur.
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Born in 1258, died in 1350.
Janabai (1258–1350) was a poet and writer.
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- 1.Dalbir Bharti. Women and the Law. APH Publishing. 18. 2008.
- 2.Ranade, Ramchandra Dattatraya. Mysticism in India: The Poet-Saints of Maharashtra. SUNY Press. 1983-01-01. 978-0-87395-669-7.
- 3.Feldhaus, Anne. Images of Women in Maharashtrian Literature and Religion: A Translation of the Pratyabhijnahrdayam with an Introduction and Notes, by Ksemaraja. SUNY Press. 1996-01-01. 978-0-7914-2837-5.
- 4.Constable, Philip. Early Dalit Literature and Culture in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Western India. Modern Asian Studies. 31. 2. 317–338. May 1997. 1469-8099.
- 5.Novetzke, Christian Lee. 5. Note to Self: What Marathi Kirtankars' Notebooks Suggest about Literacy, Performance, and the Travelling Performer in Pre-Colonial Maharashtra. 169–184. 2015-10-05. 978-1-78374-102-1.
- 6.Feldhaus, Anne. Images of Women in Maharashtrian Literature and Religion: A Translation of the Pratyabhijnahrdayam with an Introduction and Notes, by Ksemaraja. SUNY Press. 1996-01-01. 978-0-7914-2837-5.
- 7.Pawar, Nitya. Janabai. The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Medieval Women's Writing in the Global Middle Ages. Springer International Publishing. 1–4. 2022. 978-3-030-76219-3.
- 8.Glushkova, Irina. Janabai and Gangakhed of Das Ganu: Towards ethnic unity and religious cohesion in a time of transition. The Indian Economic & Social History Review. 58. 4. 505–532. October 2021. 0019-4646.
- 9.Glushkova, Irina. "GIVE ME BACK MY BLANKET!" : VARKARI SAINTS STRIVING FOR THEIR BODIES (Metaphor and Metonymy in the Construction of Divinity). Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute. 81. 1/4. 15–34. 2000. 0378-1143.
- 10.Glushkova, Irina. Janabai and Gangakhed of Das Ganu: Towards ethnic unity and religious cohesion in a time of transition. The Indian Economic & Social History Review. 58. 4. 505–532. October 2021. 0019-4646.
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