DALPAT S RAJPUROHIT
Department of Asian Studies, WCH 4.104B University of Texas at Austin 120 Inner Campus Dr Stop G9300 Austin, TX 78712-1251 Email: [email protected] Office: 512-471-1219
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Assistant Professor (tenure-track), University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2019 – present.
Instructor, University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2018 – Spring 2019.
Lecturer, Hindi-Urdu: Columbia University, New York (July 2008 to June 2018).
Hindi Instructor: American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS), New Delhi and Jaipur, India (May 2007 - March 2008).
Hindi Instructor, Presidency University, Kolkata, Fall 2014.
Hindi instructor: Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Spring 2006.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Presidency University, Kolkata, 2019
M.Phil. Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 2008
M.A. Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 2005
B.A. Jai Narayan Vyas University, Jodhpur, 2002
JOURNAL ARTICLES
(forthcoming) “Bhakti versus Rīti? The Sants’ Perspective” in the Bulletin of the School of Oriental & African Studies.
2019 “Vaishnava Models for Nirgun Devotion” in the Journal of Vaishnava Studies. Vol.28, No.1 Fall 2019, 157-171
2017 Santkavi Sundardās aur 17vīṅ Sadī ke Sattā Pratiṣṭhān (Poet-Saint Sundardas and the 17th Century Elite Institutions), in Sammelan Patrikā [a quarterly peer-reviewed journal of Hindi literature], Hindi Sāhitya Sammelan, Allahabad, April-June 2017, 67-76.
2016 Bhakti kā Kāvyaśāstra: Dādūpanthī Sundardās kā Rītikāvya se Samvād (The poetics of Bhakti: Dādūpanthī Sundardās’s Dialogue with Courtly Hindi Poetry) in Śodh- Hastakśep [a bi-annual journal of Hindi literature published from Varanasi], Vol.6, No.12, July- December 1-10.
2008 Madhyakālīn Santbānī Sanklan kī "Sarvaṅgī" Paramparā aur Bhakti Samvedanā (The "Sarvangī" Anthology Tradition of Early Modern India and Bhakti Sensibility) in Ālocanā (special issue on Bhakti-Kāl) [a quarterly journal in Hindi published from Patna], Chief editor Namwar Singh, 45-54.
BOOK CHAPTERS
2018 “Making the War Come Alive: Ḍiṅgal poetry and Padmākar’s Himmatbahādur Birdāvalī" in Text and Tradition in Early Modern India, eds. John Stratton Hawley, Tyler Williams, Anshu Malhotra, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 282-298.
2016 "Brahmānand and His Innovations in the Bārahmāsā Genre" in Swaminarayan Hinduism: Tradition, Adaptation and Identity, eds. Raymond Williams and Yogi Trivedi, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 218-232.
2015 Caumāsā lokgīt aur Bārahmāsā (Poetry of seasons) in Lok Sānskritik Paramparā: Ek Anuśīlan (A Study of the Folk Traditions of India), ed. Mahipal Singh Rathore, Jodhpur: Rājasthānī Granthāgar, 90-96.
2013 "Thematic Groupings of Bhakti Poetry: The Dādūpanth and Sarvaṅgī Literature" in Bhakti Beyond the Forest: Current Research on Early Modern Literatures in North India, 2003 to 2009, ed. Imre Banga, Delhi: Manohar, 51-72.
BOOK REVIEWS
2020 Pankaj Jha. A Political History of Literature: Vidyapati and the Fifteenth Century. OUP 2019. The book review was commissioned by Sumit Guha and is published on H-Asia (May 2020) https://networks.h-net.org/node/22055/reviews/6169470/rajpurohit-jha- political-history-literature-vidyapati-and-fifteenth
2013 Allison Busch. Poetry of Kings: The Classical Hindi Literature of Mughal India, published in the Sunday issue of the Hindi newspaper, Jansattā, October 27.
BOOKS (in progress) Currently working on a book project involving translation and introduction of the Hindi historical poetry by Padmākar and Mān Kavi (fl. 1800), in collaboration with William Pinch (Professor of History, Wesleyan University).
Currently working on a book project involving Sant monastic cultures of Rajasthan and translation of north Indian Sant poetry, in collaboration with Monika Horstmann (Professor emerita, Heidelberg University, Germany).
ARTICLES IN NATIONAL DAILIES
2015 Bisrā Dī Gayī Pāṭhśālā (A Forgotten School of Brajbhāṣā) in Jansattā, June 28.
SERVICE
Member, Executive Committee, Department of Asian Studies (DAS), UT-Austin, 2019- 2020 & Fall 2020.
Member, Search Committee for two Asian humanities positions in East Asia, 2019-2020.
Member, Hindi Lecturer Search Committee, DAS, Summer 2019.
Member, FLAS Applications review committee, South Asia Institute at UT, 2018-2019.
Member, Academic Steering Committee & Language Instruction Committee, DAS, 2018-19 & 2019-2020.
STUDENT ADVISING
Graduate: Dissertation committee member: Jonathan Seefeldt, History department, UT-Austin and Jeffrey Wilson, Religion department, UT-Austin
Undergraduate: • Campus Advisor (University of Texas at Austin) for State Department’s Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) 2018 to present.
TEACHING University of Texas at Austin ANS 302K Introduction to South Asia ANS 340/ RS 341 Devotional literature of India ANS 372/HIS 364G Literature and Culture of Early Modern India HIN 330/384 Autobiography in Hindi HIN 330/384 Panorama of Hindi literature HIN 330/384 Debates in Hindi literature HIN 330/384 Hindi Drama and Film
FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS
College Research Fellowship (CRF), UT-Austin, Spring 2021
Summer Research Assignment (SRA), UT-Austin, summer 2020
Nominated and shortlisted for Columbia University's Presidential Teaching Award in 2011. I was shortlisted among the 14 finalists out of 200 nominations.
Junior Research Fellowship (JRF), awarded by the University Grants Commission of India in June 2006.
National Eligibility Test (NET) for assistant professorship (Hindi) held by University Grants Commission – India; passed in June 2005 and December 2005.
State Level Eligibility Test (SLET) for assistant professorship in Hindi (Rajasthan), 2005.
INVTED LECTURES & TALKS
“The Dadu Panth in Mughal-Rajput and Merchant Patronage Contexts” Centennial Lecture, Hindi department at Banaras Hindu University, India, 06/25/2020.
“Naths, Sufis and the Vishnoi Sampradaya in Rajasthan: A fifteenth century context” Keynote address at the International conference, Re-evaluating the Medieval Hindi Literature, and the Vishnoi Tradition, organized by Mumbai University, 06/30/2020.
“Religion and Ecology: the Bishnoi Community of Rajasthan” in an international conference on the doctrine of Guru Jambhoji’s (15 century) and environment conservation. Jai Narayan Vyas University Jodhpur, June 5-6, 2019.
“Teaching Hindi as a foreign language”, at the ICCR Hindi Chair Abroad Orientation, ICCR, New Delhi, June 6-8, 2018.
"Why Study Hindi?" at Sathaye College, Mumbai, 7/24/2017
“Meters in Pre-Modern Hindi Poetry”, University of Chicago, USA, 05/09/2017
“Student politics in India”, Quest University, Canada, 03/11/2016
"A Dialogue between Sufi and Bhakti Poetry" on the event celebrating the Confluence of Bhakti and Sufi literature and Music in South Asia. Association for Pakistan and Urdu Studies at New York University, 12/07/13 Discussant on "Retelling the Mahābhārata in Urdu: Rendering its poetics, myths and symbols as Daastaan and reading of a Mahābhārat Story," organized by Sangam (the Hindi and Urdu Programs at New York Uuniversity), 11/16/13
CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
“Higher Education after COVID-19” Webinar organized by All India Literature Council, June 6, 2020.
“Multilingualism and the poet-saint Sundardas” in the Annual Conference on South Asia at University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. Oct. 17-20, 2019.
“Region, identity and performance in the works of poet Jān” in Performing Rajasthan – Reading Practices, conference organized by Ghent University at Meharangarh Fort Jodhpur, India. September 9-12, 2019.
Led two reading sessions in the Annual Early Hindi Retreat at Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 21-31, 2019.
“Performing Bhakti in Courtly Genres” in Performing Bhakti: An Artistic Array, Yale University, New Haven USA, May 3-5, 2019.
“Dadupanthi Anthologies: Tradition and Change” in 25th European Conference on South Asian Studies (ECSAS), Paris, France, 24-27 July 2018.
“An Examination of Elite Patronage to Dadupanthi Sundardas” in 13th International conference on Early Modern literatures in North India, Warsaw, Poland. July 18-22.
Co-facilitated and presented in Columbia University’s annual Hindi-Urdu workshop on "Hindi-Urdu metrics," Columbia University, New York. 4/8/2017.
"The Poetics of a Sant: Sundardas and his Metrical Discourse" in the 12th International Conference on Early Modern Literatures in North India, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, Aug. 15-19, 2015.
Co-facilitated and presented in Columbia University’s annual Hindi-Urdu workshop on "Hindi War Poetry," Columbia University, 4/11/2015.
"Gujarati Love Poetry by Brahmānand" in an international conference organized by the Gujarat historical council, New Delhi, 8/2/2013-8/4/2013.
"Making the War Come Alive: Ḍingal Poetry and Padmākar’s Himmatbahādur Birdāvalī" in the 11th International Conference on Early Modern Literatures in North India, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla (India) 8/3/2012-8/6/2012. "The Textualization of Bhakti Poetry and the Dādūpanth" in the Annual South Asia Conference Madison, Wisconsin, October 2009.
"The Thematic Groupings of Bhakti Poetry” in the 10th International Bhakti Conference held in Transylvania, Romania, 7/21-23/2009.
TRANSLATIONS
BRAJ INTO ENGLISH:
Brajbhāṣā court poetry (verses of Sundar Kavirāy, Keśavdās and Matirām), Translated for Rob Dean Art: Asian Art in London, for an exhibition ‘Indian paintings: Ancient and Modern’, November, 2012
The Weaver's Song: Hindi Bhajans of early modern North India (Music Album) - Translated with Prof. Stan Scott. Rangila World Music ™ 001, 2011
RAJASTHANI AND HINDI INTO ENGLISH:
"Tomorrow We Disappear," a documentary on India’s last colony of magicians, acrobats, and puppeteers. Old friends, New York, Oct. 2012.
OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE
Electronic Journal of Foreign Language Teaching (ISSN 0219-9874), http://e- flt.nus.edu.sg/, External Reviewer 2016 to current, Peer-reviewed two articles
Religions (ISSN 2077-1444), https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions Peer-reviewed two articles
Anagh (An International Journal of Hindi Language, Literature and Culture), Member editorial board 2017-current. Peer reviewed several articles.
Hindi consultant for Sesame Street: Supervised Hindi Learning Apps developed by Sesame Street in 2012.
Translator, Hindi into English, National Mission For Manuscripts, IGNCA, New Delhi (March –July 2006) Completed project for Ministry of Culture, Government of India for editing and translating lectures and articles by Hindi writers and historians.
LANGUAGES o Research in Brajbhasha, Awadhi, Old Rajasthani (Dingal) and Gujarati o Hindi, Marwari (Native speaker), Urdu (Advanced proficiency) o Sanskrit and Apabhramsha (Reading knowledge)