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  • 6 - Tukaram (1608–1649): non-brahmin religious movements

  • Richard M. Eaton, University of Arizona
  • Book:
    A Social History of the Deccan, 1300–1761
    Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    17 November 2005, pp 129-154

  • Summary

    Tukaram was born into a merchant family of modest wealth and social importance. He spent increasing amounts of time in prayer and devotion before the small shrine dedicated to Vithoba in his village of Dehu, chanting and singing the songs that earlier poets had composed in praise of the deity. The Indrayani River, which for thirteen days had claimed Tukaram's manuscripts, is one of several tributaries of the Bhima, the middle of three major river systems that flow in an east-south easterly direction across the upper Deccan plateau. Although a diachronic movement from tribal to pastoral to agrarian societies is found in many parts of South Asia, pastoralists of the Desh have played an especially prominent role in shaping Marathi society and culture. The courts of the Deccan did patronize the production of vernacular literature, though in varying degrees as one moves from west to east across the plateau.