Dalpat S Rajpurohit
Biographic Data
| ID | 714764 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dalpat S Rajpurohit |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dalpat S |
| FAMILY NAME | Rajpurohit |
| SIGNATURE | RAJPUROHIT D S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6328-6315 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Loyalty, Kinship and Honour: The Tales of Poet Jān in Mughal India
This essay examines the tales (kathās) of the Kyāmkhānī poet, Jān Kavi (fl. 1614–1664) in order to explore the historical process through which a Rajput great tradition took shape in Mughal times. Firmly situated within the genre conventions of earlier Sufi love tales that emerged from the Avadh region, the Mughal-era Braj Bhasha kathās present an archetype of the emperor-minister ideal in imaginary narratives, juxtaposing it with historical acco…
Nancy M. Martin, Mirabai: The Making of a Saint
Mīrā's "Earliest" Song and Her Images in History and Hagiography
This essay revisits the scholarly consensus about the "earliest" song and early images of Mīrā-the sixteenth-century Rajput noblewoman who is a leading female voice in north Indian devotional (bhakti) movements. I show that what scholars have considered as Mīrā's oldest extant poem-recorded in the Kartarpur manuscript of 1604, which culminated in the making of the Sikh Guru Granth Sāhib-has a different history of recension in the devotional sects…
Defining a Tradition
Allison Busch's seminal work on the classical Hindi literature of Mughal India demonstrated how the composition of works of poetic theory (ritigranths) became a defining literary enterprise of vernacular court poets in the Mughal-Rajput milieu. Though firmly based in a Sanskrit worldview, Hindi intellectuals exhibited newness in their theorization of the art of poetic craft. Engaging with Busch's work on the ritigranth genre, this article demonst…
Sulh-i kull to Vedānta: The Dādū Panth and the Mughal-Rajput imperial paradigm
Centred on the 'devotion to the ineffable divine' (nirguṇ bhakti), the sectarian community known as the Dādū Panth (lit. 'Dādū's path) had a class of sant-intellectuals who conceived their tradition on high literary and philosophical grounds. Succeeding on the local level, but aspiring to imperial ties, the intellectuals of the Dādū Panth not only built their community identity in relation to the Mughal-Rajput imperial milieu but also to the over…
Bhakti versus rīti? The Sants' perspective
Scholars have rightly questioned the periodization of early modern Hindi literature (fourteenth to mid-nineteenth century) into two major thematic and temporal categories, often described as binaries: an early bhaktikāl (era of devotion), and the later rītikāl (era of mannerism). It is now common to understand bhakti and rīti as complementary modes of poetic expression rather than oppositional styles that poets had to identify with entirely. This…
Defining a Tradition
Allison Busch's seminal work on the classical Hindi literature of Mughal India demonstrated how the composition of works of poetic theory (ritigranths) became a defining literary enterprise of vernacular court poets in the Mughal-Rajput milieu. Though firmly based in a Sanskrit worldview, Hindi intellectuals exhibited newness in their theorization of the art of poetic craft. Engaging with Busch's work on the ritigranth genre, this article demonst…
Bhakti versus rīti? The Sants' perspective
Scholars have rightly questioned the periodization of early modern Hindi literature (fourteenth to mid-nineteenth century) into two major thematic and temporal categories, often described as binaries: an early bhaktikāl (era of devotion), and the later rītikāl (era of mannerism). It is now common to understand bhakti and rīti as complementary modes of poetic expression rather than oppositional styles that poets had to identify with entirely. This…
Sulh-i kull to Vedānta: The Dādū Panth and the Mughal-Rajput imperial paradigm
Centred on the 'devotion to the ineffable divine' (nirguṇ bhakti), the sectarian community known as the Dādū Panth (lit. 'Dādū's path) had a class of sant-intellectuals who conceived their tradition on high literary and philosophical grounds. Succeeding on the local level, but aspiring to imperial ties, the intellectuals of the Dādū Panth not only built their community identity in relation to the Mughal-Rajput imperial milieu but also to the over…
Bhakti versus rīti? The Sants' perspective
Scholars have rightly questioned the periodization of early modern Hindi literature (fourteenth to mid-nineteenth century) into two major thematic and temporal categories, often described as binaries: an early bhaktikāl (era of devotion), and the later rītikāl (era of mannerism). It is now common to understand bhakti and rīti as complementary modes of poetic expression rather than oppositional styles that poets had to identify with entirely. This…
Defining a Tradition
Allison Busch's seminal work on the classical Hindi literature of Mughal India demonstrated how the composition of works of poetic theory (ritigranths) became a defining literary enterprise of vernacular court poets in the Mughal-Rajput milieu. Though firmly based in a Sanskrit worldview, Hindi intellectuals exhibited newness in their theorization of the art of poetic craft. Engaging with Busch's work on the ritigranth genre, this article demonst…
Sulh-i kull to Vedānta: The Dādū Panth and the Mughal-Rajput imperial paradigm
Centred on the 'devotion to the ineffable divine' (nirguṇ bhakti), the sectarian community known as the Dādū Panth (lit. 'Dādū's path) had a class of sant-intellectuals who conceived their tradition on high literary and philosophical grounds. Succeeding on the local level, but aspiring to imperial ties, the intellectuals of the Dādū Panth not only built their community identity in relation to the Mughal-Rajput imperial milieu but also to the over…
Mīrā's "Earliest" Song and Her Images in History and Hagiography
This essay revisits the scholarly consensus about the "earliest" song and early images of Mīrā-the sixteenth-century Rajput noblewoman who is a leading female voice in north Indian devotional (bhakti) movements. I show that what scholars have considered as Mīrā's oldest extant poem-recorded in the Kartarpur manuscript of 1604, which culminated in the making of the Sikh Guru Granth Sāhib-has a different history of recension in the devotional sects…
Loyalty, Kinship and Honour: The Tales of Poet Jān in Mughal India
This essay examines the tales (kathās) of the Kyāmkhānī poet, Jān Kavi (fl. 1614–1664) in order to explore the historical process through which a Rajput great tradition took shape in Mughal times. Firmly situated within the genre conventions of earlier Sufi love tales that emerged from the Avadh region, the Mughal-era Braj Bhasha kathās present an archetype of the emperor-minister ideal in imaginary narratives, juxtaposing it with historical acco…
Nancy M. Martin, Mirabai: The Making of a Saint
Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 works) · History (4 works) · Indian and Buddhist Studies (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Poetry (3 works) · South Asian Studies and Diaspora (3 works) · Hindi (2 works)