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VOL. 12, ISSUE 8 (2025)
The Bhakti Movement as an alternative to hierarchical economic systems: Insights from Sankardeva
Authors
Dr. Khagen Das, Sanjeeb Kalita
Abstract
What is primarily known as a religious and
spiritual revolution during the medieval India the Bhakti Movement was based
primarily on personal devotion to a formless divine, transcending rigid caste
distinctions and social hierarchies? This movement of Bhakti was taken to
straddling this with social and economic reforms by Sankardeva, a seminal
person in the Bhakti Movement of Assam. Lessons offered an alternative to the
hierarchical economic systems fully ingrained in feudal and caste-based social
orders. This paper examines how Sankardeva’s Bhakti, based on equality and
community, served as a counter narrative against exploitative economic
structures of his time in order to propound a more participatory and inclusive
economic model. This paper contends that by studying Sankardeva’s contributions
through the lenses of social, spiritual, and economic equality, his vision of
an egalitarian society was not only a religious one but an economic alternative
to hierarchical systems.
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Pages:84-86
How to cite this article:
Dr. Khagen Das, Sanjeeb Kalita "The Bhakti Movement as an alternative to hierarchical economic systems: Insights from Sankardeva". International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Development, Vol 12, Issue 8, 2025, Pages 84-86
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