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... here it would have still been a remarkable text. That Busch continues the discussion into the modern period is nothing short of a gift to her readers marking her scholarly generosity. Busch's penultimate chapter treats us to the continued trajectory of Brajbhasha throughout the nineteenth and twentieth...

... of Brajbhasha poetry—a literary tradition of Hindi that flourished among court poets in early modern North India. Referred to as Riti Kal literature, this stylistically formal, neo-classical tradition acquired a trans-regional status that was recognized along with Persian as the leading literary language...

... and its politics, often surprising when viewed from a perspective rooted in the present. 6 Thus the Mughal court offered patronage to poets writing in Brajbhasha, increasingly associated in this period with devotional traditions centered on Krishna. Equally, poets writing in Brajbhasha at the self...

... Sanskrit texts. "Udho" is BrajBhasha for "Uddhava," and Rukmini's parental home, i.e., that of King Bhishmaka of Vidarbha, could not possibly be called "Kundulpur" (p. 55) in any Sanskrit text. The wish-fulfilling tree is "parijata," not "pariyata" (p. 59n). The bird is certainly not named "chakai" (p. 60...

... and not a very good which roughly coincides with the boundaries of one. It has no theoretical matrix of any sort, un- the modern Mathura District, an area whose like, say, Peter Brent's Godmen of India (New language is a western Hindi dialect known as York, 1972) or even the much maligned Lotus Brajbhasha...

... like, say, Peter Brent's Godmen of India (New language is a western Hindi dialect known as York, 1972) or even the much maligned Lotus Brajbhasha. Religiously, the region is over- and the Robot (Arthur Koestler, 1960 and later). whelmingly Vaishnava; the plays are essentially The Swami's performances...

.... At precisely the same time that the Tārīkh-e-Khān Jahānī was being completed, molding the Afghans' remembered past into the literary norms of Persianate “historiography,” or tārīkh , in 1612 the Hindu poet Keshavdās (fl. 1600) was reshaping the rules of Brajbhasha kāvya literature in his...