Culture and Circulation: Literature in Motion in Early Modern India

Author: Allison Busch

Brand: Ratna Sagar P.Ltd.

Binding: hardcover

Number Of Pages: 360

Release Date: 01-07-2022

Details: 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 Allison Busch and Thomas de Bruijn, 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. The current reprint makes this book available to a larger audience in India, where it will find a readership among those interested in the history of cultural traditions that continue to have a meaning in present-day Indian society.

EAN: 9789391144586

Package Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.1 x 1.5 inches

Languages: English