John Beames (1837–1902) was a civil servant in British India and an author. He served in the Indian Civil Service from 1859 until his retirement in 1893. He was also a scholar of Indian history, literature and linguistics. His great work was a comparative grammar of Indo-Aryan languages, and he poured his extensive experience of India into his Memoirs of a Bengal Civilian.
John Beames' 'Chaitanya and the Vaishnava Poets of Bengal' is an enlightening exploration of the devotional poetry created in Bengal during the 15th and 16th centuries. Beames delves into the literary styles and themes present in the works of prominent Vaishnava poets such as Chaitanya...
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