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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789279503321

Titolo

Culture and circulation : literature in motion in early modern India / / edited by Thomas de Bruijn, Allison Busch ; contributors Stefano Pello [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden : , : Brill, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

90-04-26448-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource  (xi, 315 pages)

Collana

Brill's Indological Library, , 0925-2916

Disciplina

891/.1

Soggetti

Indic literature - History and criticism

Literature and society - India

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Thomas de Bruijn and Allison Busch -- Persian as a Passe-Partout / Stefano Pellò -- Pirates, Poets, and Merchants / Thibaut d’Hubert -- The Court of ʿAbd-ur-Raḥīm Khān-i Khānān as a Bridge between Iranian and Indian Cultural Traditions / Corinne Lefèvre -- Mirabai at the Court of Guru Gobind Singh / John Stratton Hawley and Gurinder Singh Mann -- Shifting Semantics in Early Modern North Indian Poetry / Thomas de Bruijn -- The Gopīs of the Jñāndev Gāthā / Catharina Kiehnle -- Poetry in Motion / Allison Busch -- “Krishna is the Truth of Man” / Francesca Orsini -- Culture in Circulation in Eighteenth-Century North India / Heidi Pauwels -- A Braj Poet in Colonial Times / Robert van de Walle -- Index / Thomas de Bruijn and Allison Busch.

Sommario/riassunto

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 Pellò,Thibaut d'Hubert,Corinne Lefèvre, John Stratton Hawley, Gurinder Singh Mann, Thomas de Bruijn, Catharina Kiehnle, Allison Busch, Francesca Orsini, Heidi Pauwels, Robert van de Walle.