Culture and Circulation - Literature in Motion in Early Modern India

Culture and Circulation presents a range of essays that investigate the dialogue between the multiple literary cultures of early modern India, shedding light on processes of cultural exchange between disparate social groups.

About the author

Thomas de Bruijn, Ph.D. (1996), University of Leiden, is an independent scholar. He was affiliated fellow at IIAS, Leiden and guest lecturer at INALCO, Paris. He regularly publishes on modern and premodern Indian literature. His publications include the book Ruby in the Dust: Poetry and History in Padmāvat by the South Asian Sufi Poet Muḥammad Jāyasī (Leiden University Press, 2012).
Allison Busch, Ph.D. (2003), University of Chicago, is Associate Professor of Hindi literature in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University in New York. She is a specialist in courtly traditions and the author of Poetry of Kings (Oxford University Press, 2011) as well as numerous articles on the literary and intellectual history of North India.

Product details

• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.03.2014
• EAN: 9789004264472
• ISBN: 978-90-04-26447-2
• No. of pages: 328
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 239 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 635 g
• Series: Brill's Indological Library
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous