Literary Cultures in Early Modern North India

Name: Literary Cultures in Early Modern North India
Brand: Oxford University Press (UK)
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By Imre Bangha

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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.

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Number of Pages:: 512
Release Date:: 2024-05-12
Publication Date:: 2024-05-01
Publisher:: Oxford University Press (UK)
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 0192889346
ISBN13:: 9780192889348
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 769 g
Height:: 145 cm
Width:: 222 cm
Thickness:: 31 cm

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