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Literary Cultures in Early Modern North India: Current Research grows out of over a 40-year tradition of the triennial International Conferences on Early Modern Literatures in North India (ICEMLNI), initiated to share 'Bhakti in current research.' This volume brings together a selection of contributions from some of the leading scholars as well as emerging researchers in the field originally presented at the 13th ICEMLNI (University of Warsaw, 18-22 July 2018). Considering innovative methodologies and tools, the volume presents the current state of research on early modern sources and offers new inputs into our understanding of this period in the cultural history of India. This collection of essays is in the tradition of 'Bhakti in current research' volumes produced from 1980 onward but reflecting our current understanding of early modern textualities. The book operates on the premises that the centuries preceding the colonial conquest of India, which in scholarship influenced by orientalist concepts, has often been referred to as medieval. However these languages already participated in modernity through increased circulation of ideas, new forms of knowledge, new concepts of the individual, of the community, and of religion. The essays cover multiple languages (Indian vernaculars, Sanskrit, Apabhramsha, Persian), different media (texts, performances, paintings, music) and traditions (Hindu, Jain, Muslim, Sant, Sikh), analyzing them as individual phenomena that function in a wider network of connections at textual, intertextual, and knowledge-system levels.

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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.

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