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Political History of Literature

Dr Pankaj Jha
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      This book studies the fifteenth-century north India through an intimate exploration of three compositions of the poet-scholar, Vidyapati: a Sanskrit treatise on writing, a celebratory biography in Apabhramsa, and a collection of mytho-historical tales in Sanskrit. An intimate linguistic, literary, and historical study of these texts reveals a world that is marked by a range of ideas, expertise, literary tropes, ethical regimes and historical consciousness drawneclectically from sources that we are used to thinking of as belonging to 'diverse' politico-cultural traditions. Vidyapati laced these ideas with contemporary flavour, classicizing impulse and useable forms. He was not alone in doing so. As the book shows, many of the ideals extolled in fifteenth-centuryliterary cultures appear to be those more appropriate for ambitious and expansive political formations associated with an imperial state. That such a state was to emerge only a century later is probably a testimony to the fact that ideas incubate and get actualized in realpolitik only in the long duration.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Dr Pankaj Jha EAN: 9780199489558 COUNTRY: India PAGES: WEIGHT: 456 g HEIGHT: 222 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: OUP India DATE PUBLISHED: 2019-01-17 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia, HISTORY / Social History WIDTH: 151 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      India, Sanskrit, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Social and cultural history

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      Pankaj Jha teaches history in Lady Shri Ram College for Women, New Delhi. The primary area of his research interest is literary cultures of the middle ages. The languages he has worked with include Persian, Sanskrit, Maithili, and Apabhramsa. His research articles, in Hindi as well as in English, in peer-reviewed journals have been widely acclaimed in scholarly circles. He is also on the Editorial Board of the international journal Indian Economic and SocialHistory Review.
      This book studies the fifteenth-century north India through an intimate exploration of three compositions of the poet-scholar, Vidyapati: a Sanskrit treatise on writing, a celebratory biography in Apabhramsa, and a collection of mytho-historical tales in Sanskrit. An intimate linguistic, literary, and historical study of these texts reveals a world that is marked by a range of ideas, expertise, literary tropes, ethical regimes and historical consciousness drawneclectically from sources that we are used to thinking of as belonging to 'diverse' politico-cultural traditions. Vidyapati laced these ideas with contemporary flavour, classicizing impulse and useable forms. He was not alone in doing so. As the book shows, many of the ideals extolled in fifteenth-centuryliterary cultures appear to be those more appropriate for ambitious and expansive political formations associated with an imperial state. That such a state was to emerge only a century later is probably a testimony to the fact that ideas incubate and get actualized in realpolitik only in the long duration.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Dr Pankaj Jha EAN: 9780199489558 COUNTRY: India PAGES: WEIGHT: 456 g HEIGHT: 222 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: OUP India DATE PUBLISHED: 2019-01-17 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia, HISTORY / Social History WIDTH: 151 cm SPINE:

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      India, Sanskrit, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Social and cultural history

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      Pankaj Jha teaches history in Lady Shri Ram College for Women, New Delhi. The primary area of his research interest is literary cultures of the middle ages. The languages he has worked with include Persian, Sanskrit, Maithili, and Apabhramsa. His research articles, in Hindi as well as in English, in peer-reviewed journals have been widely acclaimed in scholarly circles. He is also on the Editorial Board of the international journal Indian Economic and SocialHistory Review.

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