Select Publications
In Progress:
___ [Forthcoming]. "The Emergence of Colophons in South Asian Scribal Cultures." A chapter for a commemorative volume on Cultural and Textual Exchanges: The Manuscript Across Premodern Eurasia. Edited by Paul Dilley and Katherine H. Tachau. Studies in Manuscript Culture (SMC) Series edited by Michael Friedrich, Harunaga Isaacson and Jörg B. Quenzer. De Gruyter.
___ [Forthcoming]. "Scribes: Lekhaka.” In: Philological Practices: A Comparative Historical Lexicon. Edited by Glenn W. Most, Anne Eusterschulte and Martin Kern. Princeton University Press.
___ [Monograph in progress]. “The Book of Love by Ḥasan Sijzī Dihlavī.” A monograph examining Ḥasan Sijzī Dihlavī's poetics, Sufi worldview and cultural reception, alongwith a critical edition of his Book of Love ('Ishqnāma). The critical edition is being prepared under the guidance of Iraj Shahbazi.
___ [Monograph in progress]. “Rudra Kavi's Campū Kāvya and Mughal Sanskrit.” A critical edition of Rudra Kavi's poems, alongwith an appraisal of his panegyric poems on some elite Mughal personalities.
___ [Forthcoming]. "The Emergence of Colophons in South Asian Scribal Cultures." A chapter for a commemorative volume on Cultural and Textual Exchanges: The Manuscript Across Premodern Eurasia. Edited by Paul Dilley and Katherine H. Tachau. Studies in Manuscript Culture (SMC) Series edited by Michael Friedrich, Harunaga Isaacson and Jörg B. Quenzer. De Gruyter.
___ [Forthcoming]. "Scribes: Lekhaka.” In: Philological Practices: A Comparative Historical Lexicon. Edited by Glenn W. Most, Anne Eusterschulte and Martin Kern. Princeton University Press.
___ [Monograph in progress]. “The Book of Love by Ḥasan Sijzī Dihlavī.” A monograph examining Ḥasan Sijzī Dihlavī's poetics, Sufi worldview and cultural reception, alongwith a critical edition of his Book of Love ('Ishqnāma). The critical edition is being prepared under the guidance of Iraj Shahbazi.
___ [Monograph in progress]. “Rudra Kavi's Campū Kāvya and Mughal Sanskrit.” A critical edition of Rudra Kavi's poems, alongwith an appraisal of his panegyric poems on some elite Mughal personalities.
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Published:
2022. “Rudra Kavi and the Mughal Elite: A Codicological Reappraisal,” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Cambridge University Press, 32(1), pp. 83–114 (doi: 10.1017/S1356186322100078X, weblink). 2019. “ʿIšqnāma.” In: Perso-Indica: An Analytical Survey of Persian Works on Indian Learned Traditions, vol. 1. Edited by Fabrizio Speziale and Carl W. Ernst. Brill (ISSN 2267-2753, weblink). 2018. “Maithili’s Resistance to Hindi’s Hegemony and Undemocratic Nationalism: Mithilesh Kumar Jha’s Making of the Maithili Movement,” Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 53, Issue No. 44 (Nov 3): pp. 24–27 (weblink). 2018. “Abʾul Kalām Āzād.” In: Islam, Judaism, and Zoroastrianism. Edited by Zayn R. Kassam, Yudit Kornberg Greenberg, Jehan Bagli. Part of the Encyclopedia of Indian Religions. Dordrecht: Springer (ISBN 978-94-024-1266-6, doi: 10.1007/978-94-024-1267-3_773, weblink). |
Grounded/Gaze
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2015. "Toward a Surprisingly Similar Yet Different Form of Imagination." Translation of a Persian essay composed by Azita Ghahreman. In: Exchanges: Journal of Literary Translation. University of Iowa: Iowa Translations Workshop (weblink).
Select Presentations
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2023
“Book-Objects at the Crossroads of Bibliography and Philology," A virtual roundtable coorganized with Jeremiah T. Coogan (Assistant Professor of New Testament, Jesuit School of Theology, Santa Clara University, Berkeley) and funded by the Programs Committee of the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography, Rare Book School, University of Virginia, US, June–August 2023. 2023 “A Cowherd's Chapbook: An Inquiry into the Ethics of Literary Historiography," Research paper presented for the South Asia Seminar at St. Anthony's College, University of Oxford, UK, February 28, 2023. |
2022
“The Ethics of Literary Historiography: As Revealed by a Cowherd Playwright's Chapbook," Paper for the symposium, "Critical Contours of Maithili Studies,” organized by Coralynn V. Davis, Christopher L. Diamond and Pranav Prakash at the 50th Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, Wisconsin, Oct 19, 2022.
“The Ethics of Literary Historiography: As Revealed by a Cowherd Playwright's Chapbook," Paper for the symposium, "Critical Contours of Maithili Studies,” organized by Coralynn V. Davis, Christopher L. Diamond and Pranav Prakash at the 50th Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, Wisconsin, Oct 19, 2022.
2021
“Colophons and Scribal Communities in South Asia: The case of 19th century scribe copying Sanskrit panegyrics dedicated to Mughal elites," Paper presented for the symposium, "Material Texts in Post-Print South Asia: Approaches to 'History of the Book,” organized by Megan Eaton Robb and Pranav Prakash at the 49th Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, Wisconsin, Oct 21, 2021.
“Colophons and Scribal Communities in South Asia: The case of 19th century scribe copying Sanskrit panegyrics dedicated to Mughal elites," Paper presented for the symposium, "Material Texts in Post-Print South Asia: Approaches to 'History of the Book,” organized by Megan Eaton Robb and Pranav Prakash at the 49th Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, Wisconsin, Oct 21, 2021.
2020
“Interweaving Indian Tales and Persian Genres: Akhsitān Dihlavī's Basātīn al-Uns (c. 1325–26).” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), Washington DC, October 10–13, 2020.
“Interweaving Indian Tales and Persian Genres: Akhsitān Dihlavī's Basātīn al-Uns (c. 1325–26).” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), Washington DC, October 10–13, 2020.
2019
“Weaving Indian Tales in Persian Genres: The Gardens of Fondness (Basātīn al-Uns) of Akhsitān Dihlavī.” Paper presented at the Ninth European Conference of Iranian Studies (ECIS9), Freie Universitāt, Berlin, Germany, September 12, 2019.
2019
“Healing and History at the Tomb of a Sufi Poet: The Legacy of Ḥasan Sijzī Dihlavī in Khuldabad.” Lecture delivered for a seminar entitled “Histoire et anthropologie des sociétés musulmanes dans l’Asie du sud contemporaine” [History and Anthropology of Muslim Societies in Contemporary South Asia], organized by Prof. Michel Bovin, Prof. Delphine Ortis and Prof. Fabrizio Speziale, at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, France, February 6, 2019.
“Weaving Indian Tales in Persian Genres: The Gardens of Fondness (Basātīn al-Uns) of Akhsitān Dihlavī.” Paper presented at the Ninth European Conference of Iranian Studies (ECIS9), Freie Universitāt, Berlin, Germany, September 12, 2019.
2019
“Healing and History at the Tomb of a Sufi Poet: The Legacy of Ḥasan Sijzī Dihlavī in Khuldabad.” Lecture delivered for a seminar entitled “Histoire et anthropologie des sociétés musulmanes dans l’Asie du sud contemporaine” [History and Anthropology of Muslim Societies in Contemporary South Asia], organized by Prof. Michel Bovin, Prof. Delphine Ortis and Prof. Fabrizio Speziale, at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, France, February 6, 2019.
Underground
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2018
“Reimagining Sufi Poetics in South Asia: Ḥasan Sijzī Dihlavī (1253-c.1337) and the Masnavī Tradition.” Lecture delivered for a seminar on “Asie du Sud et culture persane. Productions savantes, traductions, interactions" [South Asia and Persian Culture: Intellectual production, Translation and Interaction], organized by Prof. Fabrizio Speziale at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, France, December 11, 2018. 2018 “Re-envisioning of Genres and Social Criticism in Ḥasan Sijzī Dihlavī’s The Book of Love.” Paper presented for a panel entitled “AIIS Showcase on New Research: Texts in Contexts: Genres as Socio-Cultural Agents in South Asia” at the Annual Conference of the Association of Asian Studies in Washington, D.C., US, March 22-25, 2018. |
2017
“Notes on the Political Origins of Maithili Literary Histories: Critical Reflections on Decolonization and Democratization in South Asian Historiography.” Paper presented at “History and Democracy: A Workshop” organized by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and International Center for Advanced Studies at the Center for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi, India, December 11-12, 2017.
2017
“Literary Genre, Humour, and Politics in a Mithilā Nāṭak.” Paper presented at the International Conference on Bihar and Jharkhand: Shared History to Shared Vision (In Memory of Arvind Narayan Das), organized by the Asian Development Research Institute for its Silver Jubilee Celebrations in Patna, Bihar, India, March 24-28, 2017.
2016
“Kamāl-i Khujandī in Bodleian Tazkirahs.” Paper presented at an international conference entitled “Kamal Khujandi: Development of Literary Study and Literary Relations” at the Bobojon Gafurov University in Khujand, Tajikistan, October 28-29, 2016.
2015
“Rudra Kavi and the Mughal Elite.” Paper presented in the preconference on “Sanskrit in Persianate India” at the 44th Annual Conference on South Asia organized by the Center for South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, US, October 22, 2015.
2014
“The Pathology of Texts: S. M. Katre and Indology.” South Asian Studies Program Seminar Series, International Program, University of Iowa, Iowa City, US, November 17, 2014.
“Notes on the Political Origins of Maithili Literary Histories: Critical Reflections on Decolonization and Democratization in South Asian Historiography.” Paper presented at “History and Democracy: A Workshop” organized by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and International Center for Advanced Studies at the Center for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi, India, December 11-12, 2017.
2017
“Literary Genre, Humour, and Politics in a Mithilā Nāṭak.” Paper presented at the International Conference on Bihar and Jharkhand: Shared History to Shared Vision (In Memory of Arvind Narayan Das), organized by the Asian Development Research Institute for its Silver Jubilee Celebrations in Patna, Bihar, India, March 24-28, 2017.
2016
“Kamāl-i Khujandī in Bodleian Tazkirahs.” Paper presented at an international conference entitled “Kamal Khujandi: Development of Literary Study and Literary Relations” at the Bobojon Gafurov University in Khujand, Tajikistan, October 28-29, 2016.
2015
“Rudra Kavi and the Mughal Elite.” Paper presented in the preconference on “Sanskrit in Persianate India” at the 44th Annual Conference on South Asia organized by the Center for South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, US, October 22, 2015.
2014
“The Pathology of Texts: S. M. Katre and Indology.” South Asian Studies Program Seminar Series, International Program, University of Iowa, Iowa City, US, November 17, 2014.