Book cover of Early Modern Literatures in North India. The image on the cover shows Balwant Singh seated writing on a camp-bed. It is attributed to Nainsukh, c. 1760.

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Nagasaki, Hiroko, Horstmann, Monika and Okita, Kiyokazu (Eds.): Early Modern Literatures in North India: Current Research 2022–2024, Heidelberg: Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing, 2025. https://doi.org/10.11588/hasp.1553

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11/18/2025

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Hiroko Nagasaki (Ed.), Monika Horstmann (Ed.), Kiyokazu Okita (Ed.)

Early Modern Literatures in North India

Current Research 2022–2024

The volume represents the Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Early Modern Literatures of North India, Osaka University, 15–19 July 2022. It highlights the conference series' history, the influential 1970s manuscript collection foundational to Sant tradition studies, and multilinguality in Jain traditions. It further explores the role of women in court literature, Vedāntic interpretations, the symbolism of paintings in literature, Sūrdās and Gurmukhi cultural outputs, emphasizing the cosmopolitan nature of vernacular literature.

Hiroko Nagasaki is a professor of Hindi literature at the University of Osaka. Her research focuses on early Hindi devotional literature and metrics.

Monika Horstmann retired as Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures of South Asia at South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg. Her area of research is north India, with a focus on religious orders of Rajasthan, their literature, and the interface between religion and politics.

Kiyokazu Okita is Associate Professor of Hindu Studies at Faculty of Liberal Arts and at Graduate Program in Global Studies, Sophia University. He is also a research fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies.

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Table of Contents
Pages
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Front matter
i-iv
Contents
v-vii
Figures and Tables
ix-x
Acknowledgements
xi
Note on Transliteration and Dates
xiii
Hiroko Nagasaki, Monika Horstmann, Kiyokazu Okita
Introduction
1-13
PART I - Reviewing the Scope of ICEMLNI
15
Danuta Stasik
From Leuven 1979 to Osaka 2022, or a Note on the History of ICEMLNI
17-30
PART II - Cosmopolitanism in the Vernacular Ages
31
John E. Cort
Jain Multiple Language Use and Cosmopolitanism
33-61
PART III - Vernacular Vedānta
63
Akshara Ravishankar
Hidden Meanings for World-Weary Princes
Omission as Interpretive Strategy in Theghnāth’s Gītā bhāṣā
65-90
Annalisa Bocchetti
The World Is a Masterpiece
The Symbolism of Painting in the Citrāvalī by Usmān (1613 CE)
91-112
Rosina Pastore
‘For the Benefit of People’
Bhuvdev Dube’s (Nineteenth-Century) Hindi Translation of Brajvāsīdās’ Braj Bhasha Prabodhacandrodaya nāṭaka (1760)
113-128
Anne Murphy
Assessing Gurmukhi Cultural Production in the Late Early Modern Period
129-154
PART IV - Female Contribution to the Court Literature
155
Heidi Pauwels
Forgotten Colloquies
Synergy of Eighteenth-Century Kishangarhi Authors
157-175
PART V - Reflections of Hinduism in Jain Thought
177
Heleen De Jonckheere
‘Let Me Tell You about the Origin of Śrāddha’
An Early-modern Jain Narrative Argumentation concerning Death Rituals
179-197
PART VI - Sūrdās
199
John Stratton Hawley
Poetic Selfhood and the Copyright Raj
201-214
Hiroko Nagasaki
The Many Identities of Sūrdās
215-238
Biljana Zrnic
Towards a Critical Edition of Sūr Poems in MS Sharma 3190 and Other Dādūpanthī Codices
239-263
PART VII - Rajasthan
265
Monika Horstmann
Knowledge and Methodic Discipline
A Shared Nāth Siddha and Sant Paradigm
267-287
Radosław Tekiela
Significance of Wandering in the Indian Romances
289-308
Aleksandra Turek
Individuality versus Collectivity
Pragmatic Goals of Ḍiṅgaḷ gīt Literary Compositions
309-327
Winand M. Callewaert
The ‘Callewaert Collection’
329-343
About the Editors and Contributors
345-347
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