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Literary Cultures in Early Modern North India: Current Research grows out of over a 40-year tradition of the triennial International Conferences on Early Modern Literatures in North India (ICEMLNI), initiated to share 'Bhakti in current research.' This volume brings together a selection of contributions from some of the leading scholars as well as emerging researchers in the field originally presented at the 13th ICEMLNI (University of Warsaw, 18-22 July 2018). Considering innovative methodologies and tools, the volume presents the current state of research on early modern sources and offers new inputs into our understanding of this period in the cultural history of India. This collection of essays is in the tradition of 'Bhakti in current research' volumes produced from 1980 onward but reflecting our current understanding of early modern textualities. The book operates on the premises that the centuries preceding the colonial conquest of India, which in scholarship influenced by orientalist concepts, has often been referred to as medieval. However these languages already participated in modernity through increased circulation of ideas, new forms of knowledge, new concepts of the individual, of the community, and of religion. The essays cover multiple languages (Indian vernaculars, Sanskrit, Apabhramsha, Persian), different media (texts, performances, paintings, music) and traditions (Hindu, Jain, Muslim, Sant, Sikh), analyzing them as individual phenomena that function in a wider network of connections at textual, intertextual, and knowledge-system levels.
Contents
Imre Bangha and Danuta Stasik: Introduction
1: John E. Cort: When Is the 'Early Modern? North Indian Digambar Jain Literary Culture
2: Imre Bangha: History of a Text: The Major Manuscripts and Critical Editions of the Ramcarit-manas
3: Monika Hortsmann: Yoga and Bhakti: Prithinath, a Sixteenth-century Nath Siddha
4: Daniel Gold: Sants' Sweet Yoga in the Eighteenth Century
5: Minyu Zhang: Kahai Kamal Kabir ka: Changing Images of 'Kabir's Son' in the Sant Tradition
6: Maria Puri: Avali Alaha nuru upaia: Kabir Bani in the Early Modern Devotional Practices of the Sikhs
7: Aleksandra Turek: Old Pattern with New Heroes: Dingal git in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
8: Hiroko Nagasaki: The Rhythm of Early Hindi Poetry as Reflected in the Pingala Literature
9: Nadia Cattoni: The Koksar by Anand Kavi: A Popular Erotic Book
10: Sonia Wigh: Contour and Classify: Sexual Categorizations in Early Modern South Asia
11: Richard David Williams: Music for Hunting: Animals, Aesthetics, and Adivasis in Rajput Culture
12: Stefania Cavaliere: Translating the Truth of Truths. Cross-analysis of Three Versions of the Prabodhacandrodaya Drama
13: Stefania Cavaliere: Some Preliminary Remarks on the Prabodhcandroday Natak by Nanddas
14: Giuseppe Cappello: The Gulzar-i-hal by Banvalidas: Two Possible Prefaces of an Indo-Persian Text
15: Rosina Pastore: Exploring the Relationship between Bhakti, Bhakta and Yoga in the Prabodhcandroday Natak by Brajvasidas
16: Ishan Chakrabarti: Bilvamangala in Bengal: Biographical Thought, Inexpressibility, and Other Mysteries
17: Anwesha Sengupta: The Introduction of Symmetry in an Introduction: A Close Reading of the Prologue of Jaysi's Padmavat
