Early modern poets conventionally began their compositions by praising and invoking the blessings of their higher authorities, be they their gods, gurus or courtly patrons. In the eighteenth century, North Indian society was particularly unstable, and the relationships between these different power brokers proved volatile. This article considers how intellectuals attached to religious households navigated the challenges of the period, particularly invading armies, religious reforms and forced migration. I examine the works of Vrindavandas (c. 1700–87), a Brajbhasha poet and lay devotee of the Radhavallabh Sampraday, and provide contextualised readings of two of his poems, concerned with recent history and the contemporary political climate....
Songbooks were an especially popular product in the colonial-era book industry of northern India. Fr...
What happens when a vernacular language like Hindi begins to be committed to writing, entering the r...
The eighteenth century in Indian History is characterized as an epoch of political anarchy and socia...
Early modern poets conventionally began their compositions by praising and invoking the blessings of...
Over the seventeenth century, scholars working for courtly patrons extensively produced new treatise...
The study of A n a n d g h a n’s transmission presents a case to examine how early modern manuscrip...
A decade after IESHR’s Special Issue of 2010, ‘Munshis, Pandits and Record-Keepers: Scribal communit...
Despite the prolific authorship within the Gauá¸Ä«ya Vaiá¹£á¹ava tradition, it had not produced a si...
This article examines the difficult aspects of working with anthological manuscripts and printed edi...
This article examines the literary strategies employed by a devotional poet who wrote about recent e...
From theoretical treatises to songbooks, literature relating to Hindustani music proliferated in nin...
This article examines the literary strategies employed by a devotional poet who wrote about recent e...
In early modern North India, knowledge systems developed simultaneously in multiple “classical” and ...
This dissertation is about the formations of the king as knowledge of the political in early eightee...
This is the final version. Available on open access from SAGE Publications via the DOI in this recor...
Songbooks were an especially popular product in the colonial-era book industry of northern India. Fr...
What happens when a vernacular language like Hindi begins to be committed to writing, entering the r...
The eighteenth century in Indian History is characterized as an epoch of political anarchy and socia...
Early modern poets conventionally began their compositions by praising and invoking the blessings of...
Over the seventeenth century, scholars working for courtly patrons extensively produced new treatise...
The study of A n a n d g h a n’s transmission presents a case to examine how early modern manuscrip...
A decade after IESHR’s Special Issue of 2010, ‘Munshis, Pandits and Record-Keepers: Scribal communit...
Despite the prolific authorship within the Gauá¸Ä«ya Vaiá¹£á¹ava tradition, it had not produced a si...
This article examines the difficult aspects of working with anthological manuscripts and printed edi...
This article examines the literary strategies employed by a devotional poet who wrote about recent e...
From theoretical treatises to songbooks, literature relating to Hindustani music proliferated in nin...
This article examines the literary strategies employed by a devotional poet who wrote about recent e...
In early modern North India, knowledge systems developed simultaneously in multiple “classical” and ...
This dissertation is about the formations of the king as knowledge of the political in early eightee...
This is the final version. Available on open access from SAGE Publications via the DOI in this recor...
Songbooks were an especially popular product in the colonial-era book industry of northern India. Fr...
What happens when a vernacular language like Hindi begins to be committed to writing, entering the r...
The eighteenth century in Indian History is characterized as an epoch of political anarchy and socia...