Bhakti democratized literary language and pressed caste hegemony in favor of peasants and artisans.
Evidence
For Bhakti had been associated, on the whole, with an enormous democratization of literary language; had pressed the cultural forms of caste hegemony in favour of the artisanate and the peasantry; had been regionally dispersed on both sides of the Vindhyas; was ideologically anti-Brahminical; had deeply problematized the gender construction of all dialogic relations, whether of love or worship or speech itself; and was highly ecumenical in its philosophical inspirations. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 527
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Bhakti offered colonial intellectuals a democratizing, anti-Brahminical medieval inheritance — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 1193