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ICEMLNI
12th International Conference on Early Modern Literatures in North India

Program
The conference starts on the evening of the 15th of July (introductory speeches and two contributions fol-
lowed by a welcome reception) and concludes at 1pm on the 19th of July .

List of speakers:

Agrawal, Purushottam Looking for Vernacular Modernity: Reading Dadu Janam-Lila by Jan Gopal

Auer, Blain From the Mufarri al-qulb to the Akhlq-i Hind: Translation and the Literary Life of Wisdom in
the Hitopadea

Bryant, Ken Surs Meters Revisited

Cort, John No One Saves Like the Guru: Devotion to the Guru in Digambar Hindi Literature

Detige, Tillo Ascetic Ideals & Guru-bhakti in the Bharaka lineages of Digambara Jainism

Dudney, Arthur Teaching Persian in Late Seventeenth-Century India

Gold, Daniel Hindi sants for middle-caste devotees: two eighteenth-century ideals

Hamid, Usman Making a Gift Suitable: Rhetorical Strategies in Abd al-aqq Dihlaws Rislah-i Nryah-i
Sulnyah

Hasson, Michal Lailas Lotus Eyes: The Love Story of Laila and Majnun in Dakani

Hawley, Jack When Blindness Makes for Sight

Horstmann, Monika Sant Yoga: Mohan Mevaus r Svm Ddj kau dibodhasiddhntagrantha

Kaur, Manpreet Religious Brahmhs in Punjab

Kelting, M. Whitney Tracing Gujaratiness in Modern Jaimism through Early Modern and Modern Gujarati
Narrative Retellings of Nemi and Rajul

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Kempe-Weber, Susanne The Sabadav and Its Relation to the Gorakhav

Khan, Gulfishan Tabaqat-i-Shahjahani: Assessing the Historical Value of Indo-Persian biographical literature
(tazkira)

Kothiyal, Tanuja An Age of Efflorescence: Early Modern Rajasthani Literature

Leese, Simon Imagining India and the canon of Arabic poetry in al-Yaman al-Shirwns adqat al-afra
li-izlat al-atr

Lefvre, Corinne Mughal Early Modernity as Reflected in Advice Literature

Lutjeharms, Rembert Caitanya and the Gosvms of Vndvana: A reappraisal of early Caitanya Vaiava in-
tellectual history

Majchrowicz, Daniel Imagining the Deccan in Early Urdu Poetry

Marrewa-Karwoski, Christine Under Erasure: The Attempted Expunction of the Kfir Bodh and the Avali
Silka from the modern Nth canon

Melnikova, Nora Mr B or Miroslava?

Murphy, Anne Ethical obligation and the construction of community in 18th century Sikh

representations

Nagasaki, Hiroko Metrical style of Tulsidas

Nair, Shankar Domesticating the Gods and Goddesses? Early Modern Muslim Strategies for Rendering the
Hindu Devas in Persian Literature

Okita, Kiyokazu The Karaka Connection: Sihabhpla IIs Influence on Bengali Vaiava Aesthetics

Orsini, Francesca Sant orature and poetics

Paramasivan, Vasudha Rasik Ramanandis

Pauwels, Heidi The Dynamics of Pre-Modern Poetic Interchange in Braj Bh

Pinch, William R. An Ode to Ajaigarh: Nature, Terrain, and Sculpture in Padmakars Himmatbahadur Viru-
davali

Rajpurohit, Dalpat Poetics of Sant Dadupanthi Sundardas and his metrical discourse

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Rousseva-Sokolova, Galina Female voices and gender construction in North Indian sant poetry

Sakata, Teiji Lithographed Rmcaritmnas published in A.D. 1869

Sharma, Swapna Introducing another Surdas

Shlyakhter, Mayya Chandidas: what makes the first one different from the others

Singh, Sonal Revisiting the Third Battle of Panipat (1761)

Sinha, Raman P. Iconography of Tulsidas

Stasik, Danuta Who Sees What? Agradss Dhyn majar or a Journey from the Earthly City of Ayodhy to
the Divine Realm of Sket

Tiefenauer, Marc Upanikhat-i garbha: a Mughal translation into Persian of a small Sanskrit treatise of embry-
ology

Trivedi, Yogi Premnands Object of Devotion: The Search for Ka-bhakti in the Svmnrya Samprady

Vose, Steven M. Jain Language Use in Early Modern Western India: Examining the Trajectory of Tellings of
the Narmadsundar Sat Kath

Williams, Richard David Politics and Prestige in an EighteenthCentury Rgaml

Williams, Tyler Gods account book': Bhakti and merchant religiosity in northwestern India

Zhang, Minyu The Making of Kabrs Rasa: A case study of North Indian bhakti intellectual history

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