Literary Cultures in Early Modern North India

Abstract 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). ICEMLNI have become an established forum for scholars working on literary cultures of the early modernity, conceived broadly as ranging from the fifteenth/sixteenth to the early-nineteenth centuries, that as a new concept is particularly relevant to this book. 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. The essays cover multiple languages (Indian vernaculars, Sanskrit, Apabhramsha, Persian), different media (texts, performances, paintings, music) and traditions (Hindu, Jain, Muslim, Sant, Sikh), analysing them as individual phenomena that function in a wider network of connections at textual, intertextual, and knowledge-system levels.