TY - BOOK AU - Williams,Tyler Walker AU - Malhotra,Anshu AU - Hawley,John Stratton TI - Text and tradition in early modern North India T2 - Oxford scholarship online SN - 9780199092079 (ebook) : AV - PK2903 U1 - 891.4 23 PY - 2019/// CY - New Delhi PB - Oxford University Press KW - Indic literature KW - India, North KW - History and criticism N1 - This edition previously issued in print: 2018; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized N2 - Early modern India - a period extending from the fifteenth to the late eighteenth century - saw dramatic cultural, religious, and political changes as it went from Sultanate to Mughal to early colonial rule. This text brings together recent scholarship on the languages, literatures, and religious traditions of northern India. It focuses on the rise of vernacular languages as vehicles for literary expression and historical and religious self-assertion, and particularly attends to ways in which these regional spoken languages connect with each other and their cosmopolitan counterparts UR - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199478866.001.0001 ER -