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2. Krishna Sharma, “Towards a New Perspective,” in Religious Movement in South Asia 600–1800, ed. David Lorenzen (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), 291–327.
3. Vijaya Ramaswamy, Divinity and Deviance: Women in Viraisaivism (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1996), 147.
4. Kenneth W. Jones, Socio-religious Reform Movements in British India (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), 11.
5. R. S. Sharma, ed., Indian Society: Historical Probings (Delhi: People’s Publishing House, 1974), 189