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Podcast: New Books in Literary Studies
Episode: Dalpat Rajpurohit, "Sundar's Dreams: Ärambhik ÄdhunikatÄ, DÄdÅ«panth and SundardÄs's Poetry" (Rajkamal, 2022)
Description: Dalpat Rajpurohit's bookĀ Sundar's Dreams: Ärambhik ÄdhunikatÄ, DÄdÅ«panth and SundardÄs's PoetryĀ (Rajkamal, 2022) explores the making and lifespan of a religious community in early modern India. Demonstrating fresh perspectives on how to speak historically about the Hindi literary past it questions the categorization of Hindi literature into the binaries of āspontaneousā devotional (bhakti) versus āmanneristā courtly (riti) tropes which have remained prevalent in Hindi historiographies since the nationalist period. The book studies the devotional and literate community of the sixteenth-century poet-saint Dadu Dayal who flourished in north-western India during the heydays of the Mughal-Rajput multicultural milieu. Building networks with im...