A Political History of Literature
Vidyapati and the Fifteenth Century
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9780199489558
Publication date:
21/12/2018
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304 pages
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Publication date:
21/12/2018
Hardback
304 pages
Pankaj Jha
The fifteenth century saw unprecedented vitality for literary practice, and the poet-scholar Vidyapati from Mithila was one of the many luminaries of the time. This volume encompasses an intimate linguistic, literary, and historical study of three of Vidyapati’s major works. Through this examination, the author reveals a world marked by a range of ideas, expertise, literary tropes, ethical regimes, and historical consciousness, drawn from sources that belong to ‘diverse’ politico-cultural traditions. A Political History of Literature testifies that ideas incubate and get actualized in realpolitik only in the long duration.
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Pankaj Jha
Description
Multilinguality gained a new impetus in North India with the influx of West Asian Muslim communities around the thirteenth century. Over a period of time, it entered everyday life as well as creative and scholarly pursuits. The fifteenth century, in particular, saw unprecedented vitality for literary practice, and the poet-scholar Vidyapati from Mithila was one of the many luminaries of the time.
This volume encompasses an intimate linguistic, literary, and historical study of three of Vidyapati’s major works: a Sanskrit treatise on writing (Likhanāvalī); a celebratory biography in Apabhraṃśa (Kīrttilatā) ; and a collection of mythohistorical tales in Sanskrit (Puruṣaparīkṣā). Through this examination, the author reveals a world that is marked by a range of ideas, expertise, literary tropes, ethical regimes, and historical consciousness, drawn eclectically from sources that belong to ‘diverse’ politico-cultural traditions. Using Vidyapati’s narratives, A Political History of Literature illustrates that many ideals extolled in fifteenth century literary cultures were associated with an imperial state—a state that was a century away from coming into being—and testifies that ideas incubate and get actualized in realpolitik only in the long duration.
About the Author
Pankaj Jha teaches history at Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi, India.
Pankaj Jha
Table of contents
List of Tables, Images, and Figure
Preface
Acknowledgements
Notes on Transliteration
Introduction
Part I Contexts
1 Vidyapati and Mithila
2 The Literary and the Political in the Fifteenth Century
Part II Texts
3 Writing State and Order
4 Political Ethics or the Art of Being a Man
5 Entangled Vines of Glory: Kīrttilatā and Its Many Worlds
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index-Glossary
About the Author
Pankaj Jha
Pankaj Jha
Description
Multilinguality gained a new impetus in North India with the influx of West Asian Muslim communities around the thirteenth century. Over a period of time, it entered everyday life as well as creative and scholarly pursuits. The fifteenth century, in particular, saw unprecedented vitality for literary practice, and the poet-scholar Vidyapati from Mithila was one of the many luminaries of the time.
This volume encompasses an intimate linguistic, literary, and historical study of three of Vidyapati’s major works: a Sanskrit treatise on writing (Likhanāvalī); a celebratory biography in Apabhraṃśa (Kīrttilatā) ; and a collection of mythohistorical tales in Sanskrit (Puruṣaparīkṣā). Through this examination, the author reveals a world that is marked by a range of ideas, expertise, literary tropes, ethical regimes, and historical consciousness, drawn eclectically from sources that belong to ‘diverse’ politico-cultural traditions. Using Vidyapati’s narratives, A Political History of Literature illustrates that many ideals extolled in fifteenth century literary cultures were associated with an imperial state—a state that was a century away from coming into being—and testifies that ideas incubate and get actualized in realpolitik only in the long duration.
About the Author
Pankaj Jha teaches history at Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi, India.
Table of contents
List of Tables, Images, and Figure
Preface
Acknowledgements
Notes on Transliteration
Introduction
Part I Contexts
1 Vidyapati and Mithila
2 The Literary and the Political in the Fifteenth Century
Part II Texts
3 Writing State and Order
4 Political Ethics or the Art of Being a Man
5 Entangled Vines of Glory: Kīrttilatā and Its Many Worlds
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index-Glossary
About the Author
