Horstmann, Monika [u.a.] [Hrsg.]:
Indian Satire in the Period of First Modernity / ed. by Monika Horstmann and Heidi Pauwels. - Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 2012. - X, 242 S. : Ill. - (Khoj ; 9)


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Satire reveals fault lines and incongruities between ideal and practice. Satirical discourse may be independent or invade and parody literary genres. It unmasks, ridicules and thereby deconstructs evil and hypocrisy to reconstruct honesty and reason, and at its farthest end may amount to moral utopia. The volume brings together essays on satire in the Indian vernaculars and in painting, mainly from the period of first modernity (ca. mid-fifteenth to mid-eighteenth century). These are framed by a contribution on the more ancient Tamil Jain satire and two essays on colonial satire. The volume edited by Monika Horstmann and Heidi Pauwels brings together essays on satire in the Indian vernaculars and in painting, mainly from the period of first modernity (ca. mid-fifteenth to mid-eighteenth century). These are framed by a contribution on the more ancient Tamil Jain satire and two essays on colonial satire. Among the contributing researchers are Purshottam Agrawal, France Bhattacharya, Ludwig Habighorst, Hans Harder, Monika Horstmann, Hephzibah Israel, Rohini Mokashi-Punekar, Anne E. Monius, Christina Oesterheld, and Heidi Pauwels. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt

Notes on Contributors. vii

Transcription and Style. ix

Monika Horstmann and Heidi Pauwels:

Introduction. 1

Anne E. Monius:

Jain Satire and Religious Identity in Tamil-Speaking Literary Culture. 11

Purushottam Agrawal:

Who Was the European Kabīr? 29

Heidi Pauwels:

Whose Satire? Gorakhnāth Confronts Krishna in Kanhāvat. 35

France Bhattacharya:

Satire in Pre-Colonial Bengali Literature: Śiva, an Object of Revilement and Praise. 65

Rohini Mokashi-Punekar:

The Bhāruds of Eknāth: Performance, Humour and Satire. 79

Monika Horstmann:

Approaching Sant Satire. 97

Ludwig V. Habighorst:

Caricature and Satire in Indian Miniature Painting: From the Collection of Ludwig V. Habighorst. 119

Christina Oesterheld:

Satirizing the Late Mughals: The Works of Mīr Jaʻfar ʻZaṭallī’. 135

Hephzibah Israel:

Lowering the Gods: Satire and Popular Literary Forms in the Nineteenth- Century Tamil Context. 153

Hans Harder:

Towards a Concept of Colonial Satire in South Asian Literatures. 167

Index. 187