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Literary Cultures in Early Modern North India: Current Research grows out of over a 40-year tradition of the triennial International Conferences on Early Modern Literatures in North India (ICEMLNI), initiated to share 'Bhakti in current research.' This volume brings together a selection of contributions from some of the leading scholars as well as emerging researchers in the field originally presented at the 13th ICEMLNI (University of Warsaw, 18-22 July 2018). Considering innovative methodologies and tools, the volume presents the current state of research on early modern sources and offers new inputs into our understanding of this period in the cultural history of India. This collection of essays is in the tradition of 'Bhakti in current research' volumes produced from 1980 onward but reflecting our current understanding of early modern textualities. The book operates on the premises that the centuries preceding the colonial conquest of India, which in scholarship influenced by orientalist concepts, has often been referred to as medieval. However these languages already participated in modernity through increased circulation of ideas, new forms of knowledge, new concepts of the individual, of the community, and of religion. The essays cover multiple languages (Indian vernaculars, Sanskrit, Apabhramsha, Persian), different media (texts, performances, paintings, music) and traditions (Hindu, Jain, Muslim, Sant, Sikh), analyzing them as individual phenomena that function in a wider network of connections at textual, intertextual, and knowledge-system levels.
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Out of India is the thoroughly revised and extended version of a doctoral dissertation the author had the privilege to see at a comparatively early stage. For several reasons, some of them personal, it gave him much satisfaction to be invited by the Oriental Institute of Warsaw University to participate in the promotion of an academic effort which has resulted in the present publication.Dr. Stasik's study is based on twenty-two Hindi sources (novels, short stories, a poem), in which she subjects to a close sociological reading, without, however, losing sight of the fact that they are meant to be read, first of all, as literary works of art. Her approach is supported by a solid theoretical foundation.What gives Out of India its special significance in a situation where Indian culture seems to be wavering between traditionalism and what is conveniently called 'globalization' (as it the two could not, and should not, coexist), is the ample proof it provides of the fact that the literary topos of Indians abroad, along with the ensuing encounters (and clashes) of culture, is not a prerogative of Indo-English writing but can be taken up, with even greater conviction and authenticity, by literatures in Indian Languages as well.