Early modern literary readings

Early Modern Hindi Readings Bibliography

Set texts 1. Snell, Rupert: The Hindi Classical Tradition. Delhi: Heritage, 1992. http://hindiurduflagship.org/resources/learning-teaching/braj-bhasha-reader/ R Snell: Kāvyārth at http://hindiurduflagship.org/resources/learning-teaching/kavyarth/

2. as uploaded to weblearn Kabīr: 15 padas (from the Fatehpur Manuscript) Tulsīdās: Rāmcaritmānas (Sundarakāṇḍa), Kavitāvalī (Bālakāṇḍa and Ayodhyākāṇḍa) Bihārī: dohās Ānandghan: quatrains Ṭhākur: quatrains (Nīti and ) Bājīd: Rājk t V nd: Satsaī (verses 1-200)

Recommended further texts Snell, Rupert: The Eighty-four Hymns of Hita Harivaṁśa: An edition of the Caurāsī Pada. Delhi-London: Motilal Banarsidass - SOAS, 1991. Callewaert,W. and Lath, M.: The Hindi Padāvalī of Nāmdev: A Critical Edition of Nāmdev’s Hindi songs with Translation and Annotation. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1989. Callewaert,W. and Friedlander, P.G.: The Life and Works of Raidās. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1992. Pauwels, Heidi: Kṛṣṇa's round dance reconsidered: Harirām Vyās's Hindi Rās-pañcādhyānī, Richmond: Curzon, 1996.

Histories R.S. McGregor, ‘The Progress of Hindi. Part 1.’ In.: Sheldon Pollock, ed., Literary Cultures in History: reconstructions from South Asia, Berekeley: University of California Press, 2003. pp. 912-957. Alan Entwistle: : Centre of pilgrimage. Groningen: Egbert Forsten 1987. pp. 1-108, 134-224. Pauwels, Heidi, "Languages and Literatures of the Vernaculars: North Indian" in Knut A. Jacobson, Helene Basu, Angelika Malinar, et als. ed. Brill’s Encyclopedia of , vol. 2. Leiden: Brill, 2010, 208-224. Bangha, Imre, " Early (15th to 18th Centuries)" in Will Johnson and James Hegarty ed. Oxford Handbook of Hindu Literatures. Oxford: OUP, (forthcoming).

Vārtās G. Rousseva-Sokolova, 'Sainthood Revisited: Two Printed Versions of the Lives of the Eighty-four Vaishnavas by Gokulnāth', in Bhakti Beyond the Forest: Current Research on Early Modern Religious Literatures in 2003-2009, ed. Imre Bangha, New Delhi: Manohar, (forthcoming). S. Saha, 'A community of grace: the social and theological world of the Puṣṭi Mārga vārtā literature'. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, vol. 69, 2006, pp. 225-242. Dalmia, Vasudha, 'Women, Duty and Sanctified Space in a Vaisnava Hagiography of the Seventeenth Century', in Constructions hagiographiques en Inde: entre mythe et histoire, ed. Françoise Mallison, Paris: École Pratique des Hautes Études, IVè Section – Sciences historiques et philologiques – Serie II: Hautes Études Orientales, 2001, pp. Dalmia, Vasudha, 'Forging Community: The in a Seventeenth-Century Vaiṣṇava Hagiography', in Charisma and Canon: Essays on the Religious History of the Indian Subcontinent, ed. Vasudha Dalmia, A. Malinar, and M. Christof, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Mīrā Martin, Nancy Mirabai: Woman Saint of India. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. The Mira chapters in Hawley, John Stratton: Three Bhakti Voices: Mirabai, and in Their Times and Ours. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2005 pp. 279-304.

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Kabīr Vaudeville, Charlotte, A Weaver Called Kabir. New Delhi: Oxford University Press 1997 (1st edn 1993). Bahura, G. N. and Bryant, K.: The Padas of Surdas. Jaipur: Sawai Mansigh II Museum, 1982. Callewaert, W. et al.: The Millennium Kabir Vani. Delhi: Manohar, 2000. Hawley, John Stratton: ‘Kabir in His Oldest Dated Manuscript.’ In.: Hawley, John Stratton: Three Bhakti Voices: Mirabai, Surdas and Kabir in Their Times and Ours. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2005 pp. 279-304.

Sūrdās Hawley, John Stratton: ‘The Early Sūrsāgar and the growth of the Sur tradition.’ In.: Hawley, John Stratton: Three Bhakti Voices: Mirabai, Surdas and Kabir in Their Times and Ours. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2005 pp. 194-207. Deol, J.: ‘Sūrdās: Poet and text in the Sikh tradition.’ Bulletin of the Scool of Oriental and African Studies. 63/2 (2000) pp. 169-193. Hawley, John Stratton: The Memory of Love: Surdas sings to Krishna. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Tulsīdās Gupta, M.P.: Tulsīdās: ek samālocnātmak adhyayan. 6th edn Allahabad: Lokbhārtī, 2002. Lutgendorf, P.: The Life of a text: Performing the Rāmcaritmānas of Tulsīdās. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. Lutgendorf, P.:‘The Quest for the Legendary Tulsīdās.’ Journal of Vaishnava Studies I/2 (1993): 79–101. Vaudeville, Charlotte, Étude sur les sources et la composition du Rāmāyaṇa de Tulsī-Dās. Paris: Librairie d’Amérique et d’Orient 1955 or Balbīr, J. K. (transl.): Tulsīdās racit Rāmcaritmānas kā mūlādhār va racnāviṣayak samālocnātmak ek adhyayan. Pondichéry: Institut Français d’Indologie, 1959. Bangha, Imre: ‘Writing Devotion: Dynamics of Textual Transmission in the Kavitāvalī of Tulsīdās.’ in Pollock, Sheldon ed. Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern South Asia. Duke University Press, Durham, pp. 257-332. Indian edition: Manohar, New Delhi, 2011, pp. 140-170.

Bājīd Dādū, Sukhdayāl: Maharṣi Vāzidjī Mahārāj ke arill. Delhi: Śrī Dādūdayāl Trust, Delhi, (VS 2033) 1976. Govind Rajnīś, 2004, Pañcām t aur Pañcrang: Madhyakālīn sant-kaviyoṁ kā prāmāṇik pāṭh-saṁpādan. (Māyā Prakāśan Mandir, Jaipur) pp. 43-72. Bangha, Imre: ‘A curious king, a voyeur leper and the workings of : Bājīd’s entertaining narratives’ In.: Francesca Orsini (ed.): Tellings, Not Texts. OUP, Delhi, (forthcoming).

Ānandghan Mishra, V. P.: GhanĀnand [granthāvalī] (Benares: Vāṇī-vitān, 1952) Bangha, Imre: 'The competing canons of Ānandghan: Eighteenth-century Brajbhasha poetry in manuscript circulation.' Rocznik Orientalistyczny, LXIV, Z. 1, (2011) pp. 5-30. Pauwels, Heidi: ‘Romancing Rādhā: Nāgarīdās’ Royal Appropriation of Bhakti Themes’ South Asia Research XXV/1 (May 2005) pp. 55-78.

Ṭhākur Bangha, Imre: Scorpion in the Hand: Brajbhāṣā Court Poetry from Central India around 1800: A critical edition of Ṭhākur’s Kabittāvalī. Manohar, New Delhi, forthcoming.

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