Thunchaththu Ezhuthachan#Thunchaththu
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#Thunchaththu
Thunchaththu Ezhuthachan · c. 1495–1575 by the standard account
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Who this is
Bhakti devotional poetry — padas, short sung lyrics, carried in Rajasthani, Gujarati and Brajbhāṣā streams; the most famous woman's voice in Indian devotional literature.
“The court could neither burn Mīrā nor silence her. It is the court that is forgotten; the widow who walked out singing is the one every Indian schoolchild can quote.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“A Rajput princess declared herself married to Krishna and treated every earthly claim on her — crown, clan, widowhood, honour — as already void. Then she sang it, and half a continent has been singing with her ever since.”
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