.10 /DOCUpE#T'RESUME ED 126 517 CS 2-02 848 /AUTHOR Coppola, Carlo, Ed. Mis Muth Asian Literature.. 'INSTITUTION chigan State Univ.,.East Lansing. Asian Studies Center. PUB DATE 74 NOTE 201p. J NAL CIT Journa outh Asian Literature; N10 n1 Entire Issue F. 1974 EDRS PRICE MF-$.0.83.Plus*Postage. HC Not, Available EDRS. DESCRIPTORS *Asian Stbdies; *Literary Criticism; *literature; Literature Reviews; Non Western ,Civilization; *Poetry; PrOse IDENTIFIERS India. 1 ABSTRACT . This volume contains articles about South Asian literature and poetry by G.M. Muktibodh, P.Naik, S. Chattopadhyay, M. Kureishi, and T.S.,Rege. The articles and authortare: "The Hindi 'Piti' Tradition and the "Rasakapriya' ofKeshavadasa: An Introductory Review" by K.C. Bahl; "Tradition andModernity in --'--7-literature" by M.R. Anand; "TheNovelist as Historian" by Y.J. Dayanand; "The Bloomsbury Group and Non-Western Literature"by S. 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Institutions'$7.00, Out-of--the Country$8;00 -Subscriptions and communica ons reting.to subscriptions should be addres ed fo: , JOURNAL OF OUTH ASIAN LITERATURE Asian Stu ies Center Center for Internkiotial Piograins Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan 48824. Prices: Single issues $1.75 Double issues $3.50 ManusCripts: All manuscripts and books for review should be sent to the editors'at: JOURNAL OF SOUTH ASIAN LITERATURE, Box 39. FoSfer Hall Uftiversity or Chicago "--;) Chicago, Iflinpi§ 60637 '\ "-\ The JOURNAL OF, SOUTH ASIAN LITERATURE is published quarterly by the Asian Studies Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 'Michigan. C. if/1 e ' SILVESTREM TENUI MUSAM MEDITARISAVENA: Vergil at JOURNAL OF SOUTH ASIAN LITERATURE t Volume X, Falb. 1974 Number 1 MISCELLANY Contents I ) THEHINDI -RTTrikNDITION AND THE'RASARAPRIYA OF,KWAVAbASA: AN INTRODUCTORY REVIEW Kali C. Bahl 1 THREE P.,..'aMS Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh 39 TRADITION-AND MODERNITY IN LITERATURE . ... Mulk Raj Anand THREE POEMS '45 Panna Naik THE NOVELIST AS HISTORIAN 51 Y J THREE POEMS Dayanand7, 55 Shakti Chattopadhyay THE BLOOMSBURY GROUP.AND NON-WESTERN 69 - LITERATURE Suzanne Henig FIVE POEMS 73 Maki Kureishi 83 KAMALAMARKANDAYA:' INDO-ANGLIAN CONFLICT AS UNITY Joan F. Adkins SHAHNAZ 89 P S Rage, 103 THE SHORT FICTION OF R. K. NARAYAN Avadhesh Srivastava and \ SdMita Sinha THREE VIEWS OF FAIZ AHMED FAIZ 113 FA1-Z-AHMEDFAIZ Alys Faiz FAIZ ON FAIZ 123 Faiz Ahmed Faiz 131 INTERVIEW WITH FAIZ AHMED FAI2 141 EXPERIMENTALISM AND ITS IMPACT ONPUNJABI LITERATURE Surjit Slo,Dulai 146 URDU POETRY AND ITS ADVENT INENGLISH Surjit S. Dulai 167 . Reviews Hafeez Malik, ed., Iqbal:Poet-Phi Zosopher of Pakistan Nancy Fitch 179 Ralph Russell and KhurshidulIslam, trans. an4 Ghalib, 1797-1g69: Volume I: Life and Letters Nancy Fitch 84 A y I I 4. JOURNAL QF SOUTH ASIAN LITERATURE "VOlUne X Fall 1974 NuAer 1 'MISCELLANY Contents Continued Reviews . : .:. 4 / Nayant Sagal, The Day in Shadow . \ Irene A. Gilbert 185 ".. M. K. N Wgk Raj Anand Marlene Fisher 188 `k.. ,,,,,, Deben Bhaththarya, trans.anded., La-eeSongs , of Chandidas: The Poet-Priest of Bengal; . , The Mirror of th_Jky' Songs of the Bauls from Bengal ., Musafir 190 Balamani Amma, Thirty Poems . / Doro4Blair Shimer ,19 1 Sour-Das, Pastorales ... :.. ... :./... ... , . .Farine'Schomer. 195 Barbara Stoler Miller, trans. and ed.; Phantasies , of a Love-Thief: The Caurapancagika Attributed to Bilhana dwin Gerow 202 . ES ON CONTRIBUTORS 205 f o. /---- Copyright JOURNAL OF SOUTH-ASIA LITERATURE, 1975 I US ISSN 0025-0503 F F ,41s .-6 ,*AE A,SY MICRO FICHE olt.y 4 tqf- f'pe Journal of South . Asian4 Literature rEPLLEAT N. UNDE ths- RFFMI NO', A r;,147r NA 'ENAL.N, r rE rE E (E;,CATION .47 E E ot- 011,510E F FP ' PF PERMI`. 5 Kali C. Bahl 4 ( TAt HINDI RITI TRADITION AND THE RASIKAPRIYA OF SAAVADASA: AN INTRODUCTORY REVIEW 1.1. The p esentrk* isan English translation of the Rasikapriya of'Reshavadasa pu fished in the UNESCO Collection of RepresentativeWorks -- Indian Series. The Rasikapriya, whichwas completed by its author in Samvat `1648 (roughly 1593 A.D.), is a work of contiderableimportance in the riti (a term used as a collective designation fora variety of trends concerning poetic theory) school of the Hindi literary tradition.1Besides the trans- lation of the original text, this book contaling a note.-on 'Whetthe Book is About"' and ft ratherlengthy "Introduction'!" In hiS notepn,"What'the Book is About," the translator describes the Rasikapriya* in thefollowing terms: . ,Keshavadasa we'dte Raiikapriyato provide entertainment to such readers as were interested idthe Roetry of love. Love was considered\t&-bea primarybethotion, not only by the poets of Keshava's time-butalso by those who had preceded him. Rasikapriya deals, with lovein all its varied aspects. The lover, portrayed in Keshava'sbook is Krisna and the b lovedis Radha. In poetic language they are often cayed nayaka-acrd-n.42.ka. The book describes thedifferent kinds of nayakas and nay/ as -- their lovemaking, theirmoods, sentiments and emotions, and illustrates theseby vivid accounts of the lovers in various situations.A This, note ends with the observation that 7The Rasikapriyais a panegyric love and a mine of entertainment. Above all, it isa book of pleasure.", The above-noted desbriptionofthe tcoritentsof the Rasskpri,ya, as well as the translator's concludingremarks about it, are character- istic o'f his viewpo utthis work;and are grosslymisleading. The Rasikapriya is lithe designed to "provide entertainment"'nor meant to be a "book of pl asur ." It'is a work on poetic theorywritten in the style of the laksana-granthagenre of the Hindi riti school.2' It seems to me that the translator, though hehas formed a very valuable service by ' -king a'somewhat inaccessible available in English translat n for thefirst m67-Was also ded to the confusion which alread xists in the histo ies ndi literary tradition regardin: .413f e riti school in gene al a Rasikapriya in particular. This infusion hasseveral aspects. .st of all it is necessary to bear ind that the Rasikapriya is a t t poetic theory of the rasika genre of, love poetry, a.develoPm t peculiar to the Hindiarea of Ndrthern India during the New Indory period.3: Therasika'genre of love poetry, *The Rasikapriya.4;Kesha dasa, tr. K. P.Bahadur. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1972, V, cxft, 48 pp; with color plates. 45. - . -2- both in its s iritual as well as mundane,-aspects, developed°tit of devotional poe ry of the New1 Indo-Aryan period. This devotional poetry . was in turn based on the North Indian oral tradition of love legends as reflected in a riety of narratives written during the period. There-- fore, for a prop appreciation of the contents of the Rdsikapriya, it is necessary for s to scan through various trends within the North Indian_ oral tradition of ove legends; devotional poetry of the New Indo-Aryan period, and finally the poetry of the rasika genre */se As far as I know, the scholars of the Hindle literary tradition ave ;ever followed ' through these interrelated historica elopments, 'Jai the result that so little is known abOutithem Sec nd, t e work itself is written in the style of the '.a ksaa -gx ntha genre, _st le characteristic of the works of the scholar-poets of'the period. The historians of the Hindi literary .tradition; as well as of er scholars who have done individual studies of the scholar poets of t e riti schoolor those Who have dealt with thid school as a literary trend, have consistentlyfailed-to appreciate thXscholarly traditionsa d academic practices involved in the works---\ belonging to the :aksana-gr ntha genre of the rhi school. These sCholais also believe that the Hindi W schoolwas merely a duplication of 4:1!5.) tradition of the SanSkrit Roe ic theory in the regional languages, and th s have also failed to gene te interest in the study of the poetic 1'''eories of the Hindi r7,ti sch ol as related to the diverse literary -,..... developmentg during the New Ind.-" -Aryan period. Nevertheless, these historians and scholars have a pint of view which needs to be properly 10 evaluated before the contents oflae Rasikapriya can be appreciated in the manner they were intended,by 1.