This text is an attempt to reconstruct the Bhakti movement from the 8 century Tamilnadu to the 16 century Punjab, in its totality, as a connected organic phenomenon, and as perhaps the earliest Indian voice of deconstructive modern thought. Besides surveying the tradition of Bhakti poetry writing, the author studies in some detail, the text and context of the Nirguna poetry of Sant Kabir and Guru Nanak. She examines both Kabir and Nanak as radical mystic poets ...
