Publications

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___ [Forthcoming]. “Appraising Book-Objects in the Age of Colonialist Print Cultures,” Modern Asian Studies, special issue edited by Megan Eaton Robb and Pranav Prakash, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

___ [Submitted]. “The Ethics of Literary Historiography: As Revealed by a Cowherd Playwright’s Chapbook,” Asian Ethnology, special issue edited by Christopher L. Diamond, Coralynn V. David and Pranav Prakash, Nagoya: Nanzen University.

___ [Submitted]. “Lekhaka.” In: Philological Practices: A Comparative Historical Lexicon. Edited by Glenn W. Most, Anne Eusterschulte and Martin Kern. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

___ [Submitted]. “Unravelling the Ethos of Literary Imagination in the Basātin al-Ons of Akhsetān Dehlavi,” Journal of Persianate Studies, special issue edited by Pegah Shahbaz, Leiden: Association for the Study of Persianate Societies and Brill.

Grounded/Gaze | Ink Painting by Pranav Prakash | © 2018 Pranav Prakash

___ [Submitted]. “Colophons, Book Objects and Scribal Communities in South Asia: The case of a colonial-era scribe copying Sanskrit panegyrics dedicated to early modern Mughal elites." In: Cultural and Textual Exchanges: The Manuscript Across Premodern Eurasia. Edited by Paul Dilley and Katherine H. Tachau. Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) Papers, New York University.

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).

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).