Sundardas biography of donald

1The Hindi literary scene in the second half of the sixteenth century underwent a deep change and, thanks to the stability and patronage of the Mughal empire, Brajbhasha started to supersede the earlier layers of Awadhi and sant poetry. Up until that time it was Puranic, epic, and historical narratives and sufi romances — composed normally in the doha-chaupai metre, conveying important religious or political messages, and usually of a performative nature — that had been deemed worthy of being committed to writing in the vernacular. Towards the end of the sixteeenth century, however, books began to appear in Brajbhasha that were composed in order to be read and studied and not primarily to be performed (see Busch in this volume). This is also the time when we can spot the beginning of an ever-increasing commitment to writing down Hindi songs that had so far been transmitted by oral performance.

2It was also around this time that “lighter” works began to appear on the vernacular literary scene in which the slender message becomes subsidiary to the delight in storytelling.2 One of the first known proponents of the genre of entertaining narratives committed to writing was the poet Bajid. Bajid is interesting not simply as one of the first storytellers per se, but rather because he was widely copied in the world of handwritten books, and as the author of short poems that are still current in the oral lore of Rajasthan he is one of the most dramatic examples of how literary tastes changed with the advent of print culture. The study of Bajid’s oeuvre contributes to a better understanding of the popular literary world of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the circulation of popular works in oral and written form.

3Bajid was a prolific author. About a hundred and twenty unpublished works of his exist in manuscript form. While he was most reno

Dalpat Singh Rajpurohit’s book is primarily about the relatively lesser-known religious-literary figure, Sundardas (1596-1689 CE), a bhakti sant with primary allegiance to Dadupanth. For the author, however, Sundardas is not just a sectarian figure who should be viewed only within the boundaries of bhakti, but rather a momentous figure in the emerging vernacular intellectual culture and early modernity in 17th century Mughal India.  And thus, through layered accounts of Sundardas’s life and works, Rajpurohit seeks to unravel the ‘muddle of modernity’ and its entangled relationship with the historiography of Hindi literary culture. A dominant strand in the historiography of Hindi literary culture has been obsessively concerned with creating neat periodization of progress in Hindi literary trends to mark the break between modern literary sensibility and pre-modern literary ambiguity.

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