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: Introduction, in Nagasaki, Hiroko, Horstmann, Monika and Okita, Kiyokazu (Eds.): Early Modern Literatures in North India: Current Research 2022–2024, Heidelberg: Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing, 2025, p. 1–13. https://doi.org/10.11588/hasp.1553.c22772

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Hiroko Nagasaki , Monika Horstmann , Kiyokazu Okita

Introduction

This volume collects together the papers presented at the 14th session of the International Conferences on Early Modern Literatures in North India (ICEMLNI). In format, the conference represents a forum of current research without being restricted to a main theme. Nonetheless, the papers shared certain international academic issues and foci. Accordingly, grouped by categories, these are not rigid but fluid and thereby reflect the state of current academic debates. This introduction begins by delineating the widely shared topics, then briefly summarizes the individual contributions.

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.