Kabir (sixteenth century) and the sants were mystic poets who sung of divine love but rejected conventional religious practices and observances such as caste, temple-worship, etc.

Web Resources

Kabir: The Mystic Poet (Rajender Krishan)
Kabir: Selected Poems (Washington State Univ.)
Kabir: Four Poems (Robert Bly renderings)

Books

Bly, Robert. 1975. Kabir: 28 Poems. New York: Siddha Yoga Dham.

Bly, Robert, ed. 1993. The Kabir Book: Forty-Four of the Ecstatic Poems of Kabir. Boston: Beacon Press. [ISBN 0807063797]

Callewaert, Winand M. 1992. The Life and Works of Raidas. New Delhi: Manohar. [ISBN 81-7304-032-X]

Dass, Nirmal. 1991. Songs of Kabir from the Adi Granth. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Dwivedi, Hazari Prasad, trans. 1968. Kabir. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi.

Gold, Daniel. 1987. The Lord as Guru: Hindi Sants in North Indian Tradition. New York: Oxford University Press.

Hess, Linda, and Shukdev Singh. The Bijak of Kabir. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1983.

Keay, F. E.. 1931. Kabir and his Followers. Calcutta: Association Press; New York: Oxford University Press.

Kumar, Sehdev. 1984. The Vision of Kabir: Love Poems of a 15th Century Weaver-Sage. Concord, Ont.: Alpha & Omega.

Lorenzen, David N. 1991. Kabir Legends and Ananta-das's Kabir Parachai. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Lorenzen, David N.  1996.  Praises to a Formless God: Nirguni Texts from North India.  Albany: State University of New York Press.

Schomer, Karine, and W. H. McLeod, eds. 1987. The Sants: Studies in a Devotional Tradition of India. Berkeley, Calif.: Berkeley Religious Studies Series; Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass.

Shah, Ahmad, trans. The Bijak, or, The complete works of Kabir. New Delhi, India: Asian Publication Services, 1977.

Tagore, Rabindranath, trans. 1973. One Hundred Poems of Kabir. London: Macmillan.

Tagore, Rabindranath, trans. 1989. Songs of Kabir. York Beach, ME.: Samuel Weiser. [ISBN 0877286957]

Tiwari, Paras Nath, and J. P. Uniyal, trans. 1968. Kabir.  New Delhi: National Book Trust.

*Vaudeville, Charlotte. 1974. Kabir. Oxford, Clarendon Press.

*Vaudeville, Charlotte. 1993. A Weaver Named Kabir: Selected Verses, With a Detailed Biographical and Historical Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press.

Westcott, G. H. 1907. Kabir and the Kabir Panth. Cawnpore, India: Christ Church Mission Press. [several subsequent editions]