Allison Busch is Assistant Professor of Hindi and Indian literature at Columbia University, New York. Her research centers on early modern Hindi literature and intellectual history, with a special interest in courtly India. She has published numerous articles on the literary and historical traditions of Hindi writers from the Mughal period.

Informed by a very keen literary sensibility. ... There is a great deal in these chapters which will appeal to all sorts of students of the period ... This is without a doubt one of the most stimulating and enjoyable books to have appeared for quite a while in the field of pre-modern Indian literary and cultural studies.

• Note on Transliteration and other Textual Conventions ; Introduction: A Forgetting of Things Past ; Chapter 1. Keshavdas of Orchha ; Chapter 2. The Aesthetic World of Riti Poetry ; Chapter 3. Riti Intellectuals ; Chapter 4. Riti Literature at the Mughal Court ; Chapter 5. Riti Literature in Greater Hindustan ; Chapter 6. The Fate of Riti Literature in Colonial India ; Conclusion ; Glossary ; Bibliography

Allison Busch is Assistant Professor of Hindi and Indian literature at Columbia University, New York. Her research centers on early modern Hindi literature and intellectual history, with a special interest in courtly India. She has published numerous articles on the literary and historical traditions of Hindi writers from the Mughal period.

Informed by a very keen literary sensibility. ... There is a great deal in these chapters which will appeal to all sorts of students of the period ... This is without a doubt one of the most stimulating and enjoyable books to have appeared for quite a while in the field of pre-modern Indian literary and cultural studies.

• Note on Transliteration and other Textual Conventions ; Introduction: A Forgetting of Things Past ; Chapter 1. Keshavdas of Orchha ; Chapter 2. The Aesthetic World of Riti Poetry ; Chapter 3. Riti Intellectuals ; Chapter 4. Riti Literature at the Mughal Court ; Chapter 5. Riti Literature in Greater Hindustan ; Chapter 6. The Fate of Riti Literature in Colonial India ; Conclusion ; Glossary ; Bibliography

Allison Busch is Assistant Professor of Hindi and Indian literature at Columbia University, New York. Her research centers on early modern Hindi literature and intellectual history, with a special interest in courtly India. She has published numerous articles on the literary and historical traditions of Hindi writers from the Mughal period.

Informed by a very keen literary sensibility. ... There is a great deal in these chapters which will appeal to all sorts of students of the period ... This is without a doubt one of the most stimulating and enjoyable books to have appeared for quite a while in the field of pre-modern Indian literary and cultural studies.

• Note on Transliteration and other Textual Conventions ; Introduction: A Forgetting of Things Past ; Chapter 1. Keshavdas of Orchha ; Chapter 2. The Aesthetic World of Riti Poetry ; Chapter 3. Riti Intellectuals ; Chapter 4. Riti Literature at the Mughal Court ; Chapter 5. Riti Literature in Greater Hindustan ; Chapter 6. The Fate of Riti Literature in Colonial India ; Conclusion ; Glossary ; Bibliography