New Open Access Publication: Early Modern Literatures of North India: Current Research 2022-202421.11.2025 {en}

Early Modern Literatures of North India: Current Research 2022-2024,
ed. by Hiroko Nagasaki, Monika Horstmann, and Kiyokazu Okita.
Heidelberg: Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing, 2025.
ISBN 978-3-98887-024-7 (SC), 978-3-98887-025-4 (PDF), DOI: https://doi.org/10.11588/hasp.1553

The volume represents the Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Early Modern Literatures of North India, Osaka University, 15–19 July 2022. It highlights the conference series‘ history, the influential 1970s manuscript collection foundational to Sant tradition studies, and multilinguality in Jain traditions. It further explores the role of women in court literature, Vedāntic interpretations, the symbolism of paintings in literature, Sūrdās and Gurmukhi cultural outputs, emphasizing the cosmopolitan nature of vernacular literature.

Hiroko Nagasaki is a professor of Hindi literature at the University of Osaka. Her research focuses on early Hindi devotional literature and metrics.

Monika Horstmann retired as Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures of South Asia at South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg. Her area of research is north India, with a focus on religious orders of Rajasthan, their literature, and the interface between religion and politics.

Kiyokazu Okita is Associate Professor of Hindu Studies at Faculty of Liberal Arts and at Graduate Program in Global Studies, Sophia University. He is also a research fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies. The PDF version of the book and the individual articles are available for free from our HASP platform.

Further information: https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/book/1553.

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