TY - BOOK AU - Omvedt Gail. AU - Patankar, Bharat. TI - The songs of Tukoba SN - 978-8173049590 U1 - 891.4612 PY - 2012/// CY - New Delhi PB - Manohar KW - Religious poetry KW - Tukārāma, approximately 1608-approximately 1649 KW - Tukaram KW - Songs of Tukoba N1 - Introduction: Tuka Became the Pinnacle The Songs of Tukoba 1. Personal/Autobiographical Songs 2. On Refusing to Meet Shivaji 3. Who are 'We', the Varkaris 4. Social and Religious Critique 5. Religious Questioning 6. Other Abhangs N2 - Songs of Tukoba Tukoba (Tukaram) was a seventeenth-century Bhakti Sant (saint-poet) of the Varkari movement in Maharashtra. He is still considered the best Marathi poet. These new translations by Gail Omvedt and Bharat Patankar seek to capture the wonder of his writing, his lyricism and his profound meanings ER -