Culture and Circulation: Literatures in Motion in Early Modern India (Brill's Indological Library, 46)

Culture and Circulation presents a range of essays that investigate the dialogue between the multiple literary cultures of early modern India, shedding light on processes of cultural exchange between disparate social groups. Contents Acknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction Thomas de Bruijn and Allison Busch Persian as a Passe-Partout: the Case of Mīrzā ʿAbd al-Qādir Bīdil and his Hindu Disciples Stefano Pellò Pirates, Poets, and Merchants: Bengali Language and Literature in Seventeenth-Century Mrauk-U 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: Circulation of Culture and Meaning Thomas de Bruijn The Gopīs of the Jñāndev Gāthā Catharina Kiehnle* Poetry in Motion: Literary Circulation in Mughal India Allison Busch “Krishna is the Truth of Man”: Mir ʿAbdul Wahid Bilgrami’s Haqāʾiq-i Hindī (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* Index 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. 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 Pell,Thibaut d'Hubert,Corinne Lefvre, John Stratton Hawley, Gurinder Singh Mann, Thomas de Bruijn, Catharina Kiehnle, Allison Busch, Francesca Orsini, Heidi Pauwels, Robert van de Walle. This book 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, this book presents fresh ideas that will be of interest to scholars of Indian literature, religious studies, and early modern history