Mobilizing Krishna''s World - The Writings of Prince Savant Singh of Kishangarh

Heidi Pauwels is professor of Asian languages and literature at the University of Washington. She is the author of Cultural Exchange in Eighteenth-Century India: Poetry and Paintings from Kishangarh and Goddess as Role Model: Sita and Radha in Scripture and on Screen.

List of contents

Acknowledgments

Notes on Texts, Transliterations, and Dates

Introduction: R¿dh¿-Krishna Devotion in Kishangarh

1. Soldiers Marching: Kishangarh at the Crossroads

2. Gods and Saints Relocated: Sectarian Rivalries and Hinduism in the Making

3. Devotees on the Move: The Pilgrim's Bliss

4. Legends Mobilized: Garland of Stories and Songs

5. Myth Retold: Garland of R¿ma's Romance

Conclusion: Pilgrimage, Hagiography, and Scripture

Notes

Bibliography

List of Illustrations

Index

About the author

Heidi Pauwels is professor of Asian languages and literature at the University of Washington. She is the author of Cultural Exchange in Eighteenth-Century India: Poetry and Paintings from Kishangarh (E.B. Verlag, Berlin; forthcoming), The Goddess as Role Model: Sita and Radha in Scripture and on Screen (Oxford University Press, 2008), In Praise of Holy Men: Hagiographic Poems by and about Hariram Vyas (Groningen, 2002), and Krishna's Round Dance Reconsidered: Hariram Vyas's Hindi Ras-pañcadhyayi (Curzon, 1996).

Product details

• Authors: Heidi Pauwels, Heidi Rika Maria Pauwels
• Assisted by: Padma Kaimal (Editor), K. Sivaramakrishnan (Editor), Anand A Yang (Editor), Anand A. Yang (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9780295742236
• ISBN: 978-0-295-74223-6
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Global South Asia; Global South Asia
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous