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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Hawley, John Stratton: Poetic Selfhood and the Copyright Raj, 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. 201–214. https://doi.org/10.11588/hasp.1553.c22781

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John Stratton Hawley

Poetic Selfhood and the Copyright Raj

John Stratton Hawley is Claire Tow Professor of Religion at Barnard College, Columbia University. His most recent book on India's bhakti traditions is Krishna's Playground: Vrindavan in the 21st Century (Oxford, 2020), which has recently been translated into Hindi as Kṛṣṇa Lı̄lābhūmi (Rajkamal, 2020).