To equate India’s Sant tradition merely with Nirguna Bhakti is a modern oversimplification — this tradition is far deeper, more debated, and more alive than that.In this Sangam IKS series, scholar Amandeep Vashishtha offers a detailed introduction to the Sant tradition of North India. He explains that the historical roots of the word “Sant” go back to the Ashtachhap tradition of the Bhakti period, but in the 20th century, the term increasingly came to be used specifically for Nirguna worshippers.Critically examining this classification — Saguna versus Nirguna...