Dear all,

I am happy to report that Text and Tradition in Early Modern North India, a collection of 21 essays by scholars of Sanskrit, Persian, Bengali, Urdu, Hindi, and Gujarati, and covering the disciplines of philology, history, religion, and literary studies is finally available from Oxford University Press (India). In it we have attempted to draw together current research on numerous sectarian, intellectual, and literary traditions in multiple languages and regions, in order to draw connections between them and give a sense of the period as a whole in the northern part of the Subcontinent.

I have included below the table of contents for those interested in reading more.

All best,

Tyler Williams

University of Chicago

Part One: Between Cosmopolitan and Bhasa

1. The Emergence of Hindi Literature: From Transregional Maru-Gurjar to Madhyadeśī Narratives

Imre Bangha

2. Urdu as Persian: Some Eighteenth-Century Evidence on Vernacular Poetry as Language Planning

Arthur Dudney

3. Muslim Mahākāvyas: Sanskrit and Translation in the Sultanates

Luther Obrock

4. Making Sense of Bhāṣā in Sanskrit: Rādhāmohan Ṭhakkur’s Mahābhāvānusāriṇī-ṭīkā and Literary Culture in Early Eighteenth-Century Bengal.

Samuel Wright

5. Commentary as Translation: The Vairāgya Vṛnd of Bhagvandas Niranjani

Tyler Williams

Part Two: Poetic Genres and Personalities

6. Poetry in Ragas or Ragas in Poetry? Studies in the Concept of Poetic Communication

Raman P. Sinha

7. Searching for the Source or Mapping the Stream? Some Text-Critical Issues in the Study of Medieval Bhakti

Jaroslav Strnad

8. Duality in the Language and Literary Style of Raskhan’s Poetry

Hiroko Nagasaki

9. Religious Syncretism and Literary Innovation: New Perspectives on Bhakti and Rasas in the Vijnānagītā by Keshavdas

Stefania Cavaliere

10. ‘This Is How We Play Holī’: Allegory in North Indian Digambar Jain Holī Songs
John E. Cort

11. Hindi Bārahmāsā Tradition: From Narpati Nālha to Present-Day Folk Songs and Popular Publications
Teiji Sakata

Part Three: History in Hindi

12. War and Succession: Padmakar, Man Kavi, and the Gosains in Bundelkhand
William Pinch

13. The Poetics of History in Padmakar’s Himmatbahādurvirudāvalī
Allison Busch

14. Making the War Come Alive: Ḍiṅgal Poetry and Padmakar’s Himmatbahādurvirudāvalī
Dalpat Rajpurohit

15. Alam: A Poet of Many Worlds
Shreekant Kumar Chandan

16. The Pursuit of Pilgrimage, Pleasure, and Military Alliances: Nāgarīdās’s Tīrthānanda
Heidi R. M. Pauwels

Part Four: Sampradāy and Beyond

17. Gopal Bhatt: Carrier of Bhakti to the North
Shrivatsa Goswami

18. Gadadhar Bhatt and His Family: Facilitators of the Song of Bhakti in Vrindavan
Swapna Sharma

19. Bhaṭṭs in Braj
John Stratton Hawley

20. ‘Why Do We Still Sift the Husk-Like Upaniṣads?’ Revisiting Vedānta in Early Chaitanya Vaishnava Theology
Rembert Lutjeharms

21. Religious Reading and Everyday Lives
Emilia Bachrach