Text and Tradition in Early Modern North India
Williams, Dr Tyler (Assistant Professor, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, Assistant Professor, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago) / Malhotra, Dr Anshu (Associate Professor, Department of History, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Delhi) / Hawley, Professor John Stratton (Claire Tow Professor of Religion, Claire Tow Professor of Religion, Barnard College, Columbia University, USA.)
Early modern India-a period extending from the fifteenth to the late eighteenth century-saw dramatic cultural, religious, and political changes as it went from Sultanate to Mughal to early colonial rule. Text and Tradition in Early Modern North India brings together recent scholarship on the languages, literatures, and religious traditions of northern India. It focuses on the rise of vernacular languages as vehicles for literary expression and...