Text and Tradition in Early Modern North India

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Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-0-19-947886-6
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 490 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 224 mm, Gewicht: 680 g

Early modern India-a period extending from the fifteenth to the late eighteenth century-saw dramatic cultural, religious, and political changes as it went from Sultanate to Mughal to early colonial rule. Witness to the rise of multiple literary and devotional traditions, this period was characterized by immense political energy and cultural vibrancy.

Text and Tradition in Early Modern North India brings together recent scholarship on the languages, literatures, and religious traditions of northern India. It focuses on the rise of vernacular languages as vehicles for literary expression and historical and religious self-assertion, and particularly attends to ways in which these regional spoken languages connect with each other and their cosmopolitan counterparts. Hindu, Muslim, and Jain idioms emerge in new ways, and the effect of the volume as a whole is to show that they belong to a single complex cultural conversation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Williams, Tyler

Malhotra, Anshu

Hawley, John Stratton

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- List of Tables

Acknowledgements

Note on Transliteration

Introduction
Tyler Williams and Anshu Malhotra

Part One Between Cosmopolitan and Bhasa

1. The Emergence of Hindi Literature: From
Transregional Maru-Gurjar to Madhyadesi Narratives

Imre Bangha
2. Urdu as Persian: Some Eighteenth-Century Evidence
on Vernacular Poetry as Language Planning

Arthur Dudney
3. Muslim Mahakavyas: Sanskrit and Translation
in the Sultanates

Luther Obrock
4. Making Sense of Bhasa in Sanskrit: Radhamohan
Thakkur's Mahabhavanusarini-tika and Literary
Culture in Early Eighteenth-Century Bengal

Samuel Wright
5. Commentary as Translation: The Vairagya Vrnd
of Bhagvandas Niranjani

Tyler Williams

Part Two Poetic Genres and Personalities

6. Poetry in Ragas or Ragas in Poetry? Studies
in the Concept of Poetic Communication

Raman P. Sinha
7. Searching for the Source or Mapping the Stream?
Some Text-Critical Issues in the Study

- of
Medieval Bhakti

Jaroslav Strnad
8. Duality in the Language and Literary Style
of Raskhan's Poetry

Hiroko Nagasaki
9. Religious Syncretism and Literary Innovation:

New Perspectives on Bhakti and Rasas in the
Vijnanagita by Keshavdas

Stefania Cavaliere
10. 'This Is How We Play Holi': Allegory in North Indian
Digambar Jain Holi Songs

John E. Cort
11. Hindi Barahmasa Tradition: From Narpati Nalha
to Present-Day Folk Songs and Popular Publications

Teiji Sakata

Part Three History in Hindi
12. War and Succession: Padmakar, Man Kavi,
and the Gosains in Bundelkhand

William Pinch
13. The Poetics of History in Padmakar's
Himmatbahadurvirudavali
Allison Busch
14. Making the War Come Alive: Dingal Poetry and
Padmakar's Himmatbahadurvirudavali
Dalpat Rajpurohit
15. Alam: A Poet of Many Worlds

Shreekant Kumar Chandan
16. The Pursuit of Pilgrimage, Pleasure, and
Military Alliances: Nagaridas's Tirthananda

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Heidi R. M. Pauwels

Part Four Sampraday and Beyond
17. Gopal Bhatt: Carrier of Bhakti to the North

Shrivatsa Goswami
18. Gadadhar Bhatt and His Family: Facilitators
of the Song of Bhakti in Vrindavan

Swapna Sharma
19. Bhatts in Braj

John Stratton Hawley
20. 'Why Do We Still Sift the Husk-Like Upanisads?'
Revisiting Vedanta in Early Chaitanya
Vaishnava Theology

Rembert Lutjeharms
21. Religious Reading and Everyday Lives

Emilia Bachrach

About the Editors and Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Tyler Williams is assistant professor in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago, USA.

Anshu Malhotra is associate professor in the Department of History, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Delhi, India.

John S. Hawley is Claire Tow Professor of Religion, Barnard College, Columbia University, USA.