In the Shrine of the Heart
Horstmann, Monika / Singh Rajpurohit, Dalpat
In the early modern period, the Sants emerged in North India as devotees of a
formless interior god. The volume introduces seven Sant authors living in Rajasthan
in the period from the first half of the sixteenth to the eighties of the
seventeenth century. It explores their complex cultural background, their literary
conventions, and their sectarian network, and presents samples of their poetry in
the original Hindi with English translati...