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Accepted Paper:
Soirées of bhaktas and Sufis in the early eighteenth century: evidence from the pen of Savant Singh of Kishangarh
Heidi Pauwels
(University of Washington)
Paper short abstract:
This paper will look at poetic dialogues and exchange of ideas in eighteenth-century North India by studying the case of Savant Singh of Kishangarh (1699-1764). The paper will present evidence of poetic dialogues between what is now regarded as separate poetic traditions of Braj Bhasha and Urdu.
Paper long abstract:
This paper will look at poetic dialogues and exchange of ideas in eighteenth-century North India by studying the case of Savant Singh of Kishangarh (1699-1764). He is best known as patron of the Kishangarhi miniatures and as a Krishna bhakti poet who wrote under the pen name of Nagridas. However, he also experimented with the then-new style later called Urdu poetry and included Urdu poets in the anthologies he collected. The paper will present evidence of such poetic dialogues between what is now regarded as separate poetic traditions. I will do so on the basis of recent manuscript research in India of his poems and collections, as well as on the basis of miniatures depicting gatherings in Kishangarh and try to situate this historically.
Panel
P23
Yogis, sufis, devotees: religious/literary encounters in pre-modern and modern South Asia
Session 1