Culture and circulation : literature in motion in early modern India
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Culture and circulation : literature in motion in early modern India
(Brill's Indological library, v. 46)
Brill, 2014
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Originated in a conference in 2006 at Leiden University
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Culture and Circulation reflects an innovative approach to early modern Indian literature. The authors foreground the complex hybridity of literary genres and social milieus, capturing elements that have eluded traditional literary history. In this book, jointly edited by Thomas de Bruijn and Allison Busch, Hindi authors rub shoulders with their Persian counterparts in the courts of Mughal India; the fame of Mirabai, a poetess from Rajasthan, travels to Punjab; the sayings of Kabir are found to be as difficult to pin down as the holy men who transmitted them. Drawing on new archives in several Indian languages, Culture and Circulation presents fresh ideas that will be of interest to scholars of Indian literature, religious studies, and early modern history.
Contributors include Stefano Pello,Thibaut d'Hubert,Corinne Lefevre, John Stratton Hawley, Gurinder Singh Mann, Thomas de Bruijn, Catharina Kiehnle, Allison Busch, Francesca Orsini, Heidi Pauwels, Robert van de Walle.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Introduction - Thomas de Bruijn and Allison Busch
Persian as a Passe-Partout: the Case of Mirza 'Abd al-Qader Bidil and his Hindu Disciples - Stefano Pello
Pirates, Poets, and Merchants: Bengali Language and Literature in Seventeenth-Century Mrauk-U - Thibaut d'Hubert
The Court of 'Abd-ur-Rahim Khan-i Khanan as a Bridge between Iranian and Indian Cultural Traditions - Corinne Lefevre
Mirabai at the Court of Guru Gobind Singh - John Stratton Hawley and Gurinder Singh Mann
Shifting Semantics in Early Modern North Indian Poetry: Circulation of Culture and Meaning - Thomas de Bruijn
The Gopis of the Jnandev Gatha - Catharina Kiehnle
Poetry in Motion: Literary Circulation in Mughal India - Allison Busch
"Krishna is the Truth of Man": Mir 'Abdul Wahid Bilgrami's Haqa'iq-i Hindi (Indian Truths) and the Circulation of Dhrupad and Bishnupad - Francesca Orsini
Culture in Circulation in Eighteenth-Century North India: Urdu Poetry by a Rajput Krishna Devotee - Heidi Pauwels
A Braj Poet in Colonial Times - Robert van de Walle
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