Table of Contents

List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Note on Transliteration
Introduction
Tyler Williams and Anshu Malhotra

Part One Between Cosmopolitan and Bhasa

1. The Emergence of Hindi Literature: From
Transregional Maru-Gurjar to Madhyadesi Narratives
Imre Bangha
2. Urdu as Persian: Some Eighteenth-Century Evidence
on Vernacular Poetry as Language Planning
Arthur Dudney
3. Muslim Mahakavyas: Sanskrit and Translation
in the Sultanates
Luther Obrock
4. Making Sense of Bhasa in Sanskrit: Radhamohan
Thakkur's Mahabhavanusarini-tika and Literary
Culture in Early Eighteenth-Century Bengal
Samuel Wright
5. Commentary as Translation: The Vairagya Vrnd
of Bhagvandas Niranjani
Tyler Williams

Part Two Poetic Genres and Personalities

6. Poetry in Ragas or Ragas in Poetry? Studies
in the Concept of Poetic Communication
Raman P. Sinha
7. Searching for the Source or Mapping the Stream?
Some Text-Critical Issues in the Study of
Medieval Bhakti
Jaroslav Strnad
8. Duality in the Language and Literary Style
of Raskhan's Poetry
Hiroko Nagasaki
9. Religious Syncretism and Literary Innovation:
New Perspectives on Bhakti and Rasas in the
Vijnanagita by Keshavdas
Stefania Cavaliere
10. 'This Is How We Play Holi': Allegory in North Indian
Digambar Jain Holi Songs
John E. Cort
11. Hindi Barahmasa Tradition: From Narpati Nalha
to Present-Day Folk Songs and Popular Publications
Teiji Sakata

Part Three History in Hindi
12. War and Succession: Padmakar, Man Kavi,
and the Gosains in Bundelkhand
William Pinch
13. The Poetics of History in Padmakar's
Himmatbahadurvirudavali
Allison Busch
14. Making the War Come Alive: Dingal Poetry and
Padmakar's Himmatbahadurvirudavali
Dalpat Rajpurohit
15. Alam: A Poet of Many Worlds
Shreekant Kumar Chandan
16. The Pursuit of Pilgrimage, Pleasure, and
Military Alliances: Nagaridas's Tirthananda
Heidi R. M. Pauwels

Part Four Sampraday and Beyond
17. Gopal Bhatt: Carrier of Bhakti to the North
Shrivatsa Goswami
18. Gadadhar Bhatt and His Family: Facilitators
of the Song of Bhakti in Vrindavan
Swapna Sharma
19. Bhatts in Braj
John Stratton Hawley
20. 'Why Do We Still Sift the Husk-Like Upanisads?'
Revisiting Vedanta in Early Chaitanya
Vaishnava Theology
Rembert Lutjeharms
21. Religious Reading and Everyday Lives
Emilia Bachrach

About the Editors and Contributors
Index

About the Author

Tyler Williams is assistant professor in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago, USA.

Anshu Malhotra is associate professor in the Department of History, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Delhi, India.

John S. Hawley is Claire Tow Professor of Religion, Barnard College, Columbia University, USA.

Reviews

this volume brings into productive conversation the current work of many of the leading scholars of early modern North India and is invaluable for those interested in the religion, history, or literature of the period.
*Gregory M. Clines, Religious Studies Review*

Text and Tradition is certainly an important contribution to the literary and religious developments in early modern Northern India.
*Hans Harder, Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 2023*