POETRY OF KINGS

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-976592-8
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 618 g

Reihe: South Asia Research

This in-depth study of the classical Hindi tradition brings the world of Mughal-era poetry and court culture alive for an English readership. Allison Busch draws on the perspectives of literary, social, and intellectual history to elucidate one of premodern India's most significant textual traditions, documenting the dramatic rise of a new type of professional Hindi writer while providing critical insight into the motives that animated this literary community and its
patrons.

Busch examines how riti literature served as an important aesthetic and political resource in the richly multicultural world of Mughal India, and provides, for the first time in a Western language, a detailed study of the fascinating oeuvre of Keshavdas, whose seminal Rasikpriya (Handbook for poetry connoisseurs, 1591) was the catalyst for a new Hindi classicism that attracted a spectacular following in the leading courts of early modern India. The circulation of Hindi
literature among diverse communities during this period is testament to a remarkable pluralism that cannot be understood in terms of the nationalist logic that has constrained modern Hindi and Urdu to be "Hindu" and "Muslim" languages since the nineteenth century. With the cultural reforms ushered in by colonialism, north
Indians repudiated the classical traditions of the courtly past, a complex process given extended treatment in the final chapter.

Busch provides valuable insight into more than two centuries of Hindi courtly culture. Poetry of Kings also showcases the importance of bringing precolonial archives into dialogue with current debates of postcolonial theory.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students of Hindi literature, but also Indian literature generally, Sanskrit, Persian, art history of India; private collectors of painting (the Rasikpriya in particular was a major painting tradition), historians of India of all periods, readers interested in India's musical heritage (Brajbhasha was the preeminent language of north Indian music)

Autoren/Hrsg.

Busch, Allison

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Indische & Dravidische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Note on Transliteration and other Textual Conventions
Introduction: A Forgetting of Things Past
Chapter 1. Keshavdas of Orchha
Chapter 2. The Aesthetic World of Riti Poetry
Chapter 3. Riti Intellectuals
Chapter 4. Riti Literature at the Mughal Court
Chapter 5. Riti Literature in Greater Hindustan
Chapter 6. The Fate of Riti Literature in Colonial India
Conclusion
Glossary
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Busch, Allison
Allison Busch is Assistant Professor of Hindi and Indian literature at Columbia University, New York. Her research centers on early modern Hindi literature and intellectual history, with a special interest in courtly India. She has published numerous articles on the literary and historical traditions of Hindi writers from the Mughal period.

Allison Busch is Assistant Professor of Hindi and Indian literature at Columbia University, New York. Her research centers on early modern Hindi literature and intellectual history, with a special interest in courtly India. She has published numerous articles on the literary and historical traditions of Hindi writers from the Mughal period.