Literary Cultures in Early Modern North India

Imre Bangha is Associate Professor of Hindi at Oxford University. He studied Indology in Budapest and holds a Ph.D. from Visva-Bharati. His publications include books in English, Hindi, and Hungarian, and articles on literature in Brajbhasha and other forms of classical Hindi. Currently, he is working on the emergence of the Hindi literary tradition and on the early literary use of Hindustani. Danuta Stasik is Professor of South Asian Studies at the University of Warsaw where she studied Indology and earned her doctoral degree. Her research focuses mainly on the history of Hindi literature and literary criticism, the Ramayana tradition in North India, as well as on the Indian diaspora in the West with a particular emphasis on Hindi writing. Her publications include books and research papers in English, Hindi, and Polish, devoted to these subjects. She was awarded with Vishva Hindi Samman (1999 and 2003) and Dr George Grierson Puraskar 2007 by the President of India.

Imre Bangha and Danuta Stasik: Introduction
1: John E. Cort: When Is the 'Early Modern? North Indian Digambar Jain Literary Culture
2: Imre Bangha: History of a Text: The Major Manuscripts and Critical Editions of the Ramcarit-manas
3: Monika Hortsmann: Yoga and Bhakti: Prithinath, a Sixteenth-century Nath Siddha
4: Daniel Gold: Sants' Sweet Yoga in the Eighteenth Century
5: Minyu Zhang: Kahai Kamal Kabir ka: Changing Images of 'Kabir's Son' in the Sant Tradition
6: Maria Puri: Avali Alaha nuru upaia: Kabir Bani in the Early Modern Devotional Practices of the Sikhs
7: Aleksandra Turek: Old Pattern with New Heroes: Dingal git in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
8: Hiroko Nagasaki: The Rhythm of Early Hindi Poetry as Reflected in the Pingala Literature
9: Nadia Cattoni: The Koksar by Anand Kavi: A Popular Erotic Book
10: Sonia Wigh: Contour and Classify: Sexual Categorizations in Early Modern South Asia
11: Richard David Williams: Music for Hunting: Animals, Aesthetics, and Adivasis in Rajput Culture
12: Stefania Cavaliere: Translating the Truth of Truths. Cross-analysis of Three Versions of the Prabodhacandrodaya Drama
13: Stefania Cavaliere: Some Preliminary Remarks on the Prabodhcandroday Natak by Nanddas
14: Giuseppe Cappello: The Gulzar-i-hal by Banvalidas: Two Possible Prefaces of an Indo-Persian Text
15: Rosina Pastore: Exploring the Relationship between Bhakti, Bhakta and Yoga in the Prabodhcandroday Natak by Brajvasidas
16: Ishan Chakrabarti: Bilvamangala in Bengal: Biographical Thought, Inexpressibility, and Other Mysteries
17: Anwesha Sengupta: The Introduction of Symmetry in an Introduction: A Close Reading of the Prologue of Jaysi's Padmavat