Culture and Circulation: Literature in Motion in Early Modern India
Bruijn, Thomas De and Allison Busch
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Book ID : 45335
ISBN-10 : 93-6080-883-0 / 9360808830
ISBN-13 : 978-93-6080-883-9 / 9789360808839
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
2025
Edition : (Reprint)
Language : English
23 cm. 328p.
CONTENTS
DESCRIPTION
Culture and Circulation takes 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 wandering 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. About the Author Thomas de Bruijn, Ph.D. (1996), University of Leiden, is an independent scholar. He was affiliated fellow at IIAS, Leiden and guest lecturer at INALCO, Paris. He regularly publishes on modern and premodern Indian literature. His publications include the book Ruby in the Dust: Poetry and History in Padmavat by the South Asian Sufi Poet Mu?ammad Jayasi (Leiden University Press, 2012). Allison Busch, Ph.D. (2003), University of Chicago, is Associate Professor of Hindi literature in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University in New York. She is a specialist in courtly traditions and the author of Poetry of Kings (Oxford University Press, 2011) as well as numerous articles on the literary and intellectual history of North India.
