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Book's First Pageincluded archetypal Kshatriya warriors, the great Rajput lineages. Gujarati Bania (merchant) castes made their version of Vaishya culture Jain, a cultural phenomenon with its origins in the mixed patronage of medieval dynasties. Deccan and South India • In the peninsula, medieval worshippers of Shiva and Vishnu displaced Buddhism and Jainism from the cultural prominence they enjoyed in late ancient and early medieval times, especially in Madurai and Kanchipuram. • Pockets of Jainism remained, however, and all along the peninsular coast, most prominently in Kerala, Hindu kings patronised diverse merchant communities that were essential features of life along the Arabian Sea coast, including Jains, Zoroastrians, Muslims, Christians, and Jews. • Arab Muslim settlements received patronage from non-Muslim rulers all along the peninsular coast, as they did across the Palk Straights in Sri Lanka. • Inside medieval Hindu cultural environments, trends in popular religion indicate the increasing influence of religious feelings of a distinctly non-brahmin kind that first achieved prominence in temple worship farthest from the original home of classical brahmin orthodoxy. • In the far south, from the eighth century onward, non-brahmin cultural activists took the lead in spreading Shiva and Vishnu worship in the old Dakshinapatha by inventing devotional (bhakti) worship that valued emotion above knowledge, discipline, and ritual; by composing vernacular verse in Tamil, not Sanskrit; by promoting female saints and mass participation in deity worship; by giving devotees a direct relation to god independent of Brahminical mediation; by making low caste status respectable in the eyes of god; by praising poet saints over brahmin gurus; and by creating pilgrimage places rooted in local traditions. • Bhakti poets produced a new style of emotive, popular cultural