Purnima Dhavan
Biographic Data
| ID | 81748 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Purnima Dhavan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Purnima |
| FAMILY NAME | Dhavan |
| SIGNATURE | DHAVAN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9345-667X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Resisting Religious Labels in Early Modern Punjab: Why Place Still Matters
Crafting literary Urdu: Mirza Hatim's engagement with Vali Dakhani
The emergence in eighteenth-century India of literary compositions that used the elite registers of what was, at the time, called 'Rekhtah', and later defined as Urdu, is poorly understood. Conventionally, after an initial infatuation in Delhi with the works of Vali Dakhani,1 a mid-century break is assumed, exemplified by the revision of Zuhur ud-Din Hatim's Divan as Divanzadah in the 1750s. Scholars have viewed this as a radical intervention in …
Networks and fault lines in eighteenth-century Deccani literary communities: Lachmī Narāyan ‘Shafīq’ and his circle
By the end of the eighteenth century, emerging states in South Asia drew on successive waves of migration to staff their institutions. Scholars, poets and bureaucrats in these new states were entrusted with the crafting and maintenance of new bureaucratic systems and cultural spaces. The attempts to create shared bonds in these new spaces, however, also created tensions between those who were recent arrivals in these communities and those whose f…
Marking Boundaries and Building Bridges: Persian Scholarly Networks in Mughal Punjab
Soon after Emperor Jalal al-Din Muhammad Akbar adopted Persian as the language of state in 1581, both the Mughal Empire and the cultural sphere of Persian expanded together in South Asia.Persian had a long history in South Asia before the Mughals, which would continue in South Asia even as the Mughal Empire slowly retrenched, but the stories of the language and the state that advanced it in India are intrinsically linked.Its official role in stat…
Hardip Singh Syan, Sikh Militancy in the Seventeenth Century: Religious Violence in Mughal and Early Modern India (London: I.B. Tauris, 2013)
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
The Sikh Zafar-Namah of Guru Gobind Singh: A discursive blade in the heart of the Mughal Empire
Louis Fenech's new work on the Zafarnama attributed to the Tenth Sikh Guru, Gobind Singh, engages with the growing literature on the Persian Shahnama traditions as well as that of the courtly tradi
Controversies Surrounding the Reception of Valī “Dakhanī” (1665?–1707?) in Early Tażkirahs of Urdu Poets
Early Urdu poetry, at the time called Reḳhtah, forms a remarkable example of the circulation of ideas in early modern India. Scholars trace its modern form to the reception in early eighteenth-century Delhi of a Southern literary idiom, usually called Dakhanī that is itself the result of repeated waves of migration from North India to the Deccan. While the historical origins of Urdu occupy an arena of lively scholarly debate, its later historical…
At Baba Ratan's Fair
Reading the Texture of History and Memory in Early-Nineteenth-Century Punjab
This article examines two early-nineteenth-century Punjabi histories to demonstrate how these texts reflect ruptures in the recording and reordering of Sikh historical memories in the decades prior to colonization. An awareness of the East India Company's interest in the records of the recent Sikh past is reflected in the works of Ratan Singh Bhangu, the author of the hagiographic work Gur Panth Prakash, and Ram Sukh Rao, the court historian of t…
Where the Twain Shall Meet: Kitte Mil Ve Mahi: Where the Twain Shall Meet. Produced by Ajay Bhardwaj, edited by Sachindra Bisht. DVD, color, 70 minutes, 2005. Punjabi with English subtitles. Distribut…
Although ostensibly about two different themes, these two documentaries by Ajay Bhardwaj reveal the way in which the Partition of Imperial India in 1947 continues to shape the lives and memories of
Redemptive Pasts and Imperiled Futures: The Writing of a Sikh History
This article examines the narrative frameworks of the Persian histories of the Sikhs commissioned by the East India Company. These texts are important sources for understanding the development of individual Sikh states in the late eighteenth century, however, very little is known about the information networks and scholarly practices of the authors of such texts. Using the Tarikh-i Ahwal-i Sikhan of Khushwaqt Rai, I examine the ways in which Rai …
Sikh Community: Over 100 Years in the Pacific Northwest
“Sikh Community: Over 100 Years in the Pacific Northwest.” The Wing Luke Asian Museum, 407 7th Ave. South, Seattle, WA 98104. Temporary exhibition, Oct. 20, 2005–April 16, 2006. 400 sq. ft. Cassie Chin, project coordinator; Jasmit Singh (Director of Education, Sikh Coalition), community partner; Tripat Singh, research; Sujot Kaur, Tripat Singh, Pei Pei Sung, oral histories; Bob Fisher, collection manager. Museum programs include workshops, sympos…
Controversies Surrounding the Reception of Valī “Dakhanī” (1665?–1707?) in Early Tażkirahs of Urdu Poets
Early Urdu poetry, at the time called Reḳhtah, forms a remarkable example of the circulation of ideas in early modern India. Scholars trace its modern form to the reception in early eighteenth-century Delhi of a Southern literary idiom, usually called Dakhanī that is itself the result of repeated waves of migration from North India to the Deccan. While the historical origins of Urdu occupy an arena of lively scholarly debate, its later historical…
Reading the Texture of History and Memory in Early-Nineteenth-Century Punjab
This article examines two early-nineteenth-century Punjabi histories to demonstrate how these texts reflect ruptures in the recording and reordering of Sikh historical memories in the decades prior to colonization. An awareness of the East India Company's interest in the records of the recent Sikh past is reflected in the works of Ratan Singh Bhangu, the author of the hagiographic work Gur Panth Prakash, and Ram Sukh Rao, the court historian of t…
Networks and fault lines in eighteenth-century Deccani literary communities: Lachmī Narāyan ‘Shafīq’ and his circle
By the end of the eighteenth century, emerging states in South Asia drew on successive waves of migration to staff their institutions. Scholars, poets and bureaucrats in these new states were entrusted with the crafting and maintenance of new bureaucratic systems and cultural spaces. The attempts to create shared bonds in these new spaces, however, also created tensions between those who were recent arrivals in these communities and those whose f…
Sikh Community: Over 100 Years in the Pacific Northwest
“Sikh Community: Over 100 Years in the Pacific Northwest.” The Wing Luke Asian Museum, 407 7th Ave. South, Seattle, WA 98104. Temporary exhibition, Oct. 20, 2005–April 16, 2006. 400 sq. ft. Cassie Chin, project coordinator; Jasmit Singh (Director of Education, Sikh Coalition), community partner; Tripat Singh, research; Sujot Kaur, Tripat Singh, Pei Pei Sung, oral histories; Bob Fisher, collection manager. Museum programs include workshops, sympos…
Redemptive Pasts and Imperiled Futures: The Writing of a Sikh History
This article examines the narrative frameworks of the Persian histories of the Sikhs commissioned by the East India Company. These texts are important sources for understanding the development of individual Sikh states in the late eighteenth century, however, very little is known about the information networks and scholarly practices of the authors of such texts. Using the Tarikh-i Ahwal-i Sikhan of Khushwaqt Rai, I examine the ways in which Rai …
Where the Twain Shall Meet: Kitte Mil Ve Mahi: Where the Twain Shall Meet. Produced by Ajay Bhardwaj, edited by Sachindra Bisht. DVD, color, 70 minutes, 2005. Punjabi with English subtitles. Distribut…
Although ostensibly about two different themes, these two documentaries by Ajay Bhardwaj reveal the way in which the Partition of Imperial India in 1947 continues to shape the lives and memories of
Reading the Texture of History and Memory in Early-Nineteenth-Century Punjab
This article examines two early-nineteenth-century Punjabi histories to demonstrate how these texts reflect ruptures in the recording and reordering of Sikh historical memories in the decades prior to colonization. An awareness of the East India Company's interest in the records of the recent Sikh past is reflected in the works of Ratan Singh Bhangu, the author of the hagiographic work Gur Panth Prakash, and Ram Sukh Rao, the court historian of t…
Controversies Surrounding the Reception of Valī “Dakhanī” (1665?–1707?) in Early Tażkirahs of Urdu Poets
Early Urdu poetry, at the time called Reḳhtah, forms a remarkable example of the circulation of ideas in early modern India. Scholars trace its modern form to the reception in early eighteenth-century Delhi of a Southern literary idiom, usually called Dakhanī that is itself the result of repeated waves of migration from North India to the Deccan. While the historical origins of Urdu occupy an arena of lively scholarly debate, its later historical…
At Baba Ratan's Fair
The Sikh Zafar-Namah of Guru Gobind Singh: A discursive blade in the heart of the Mughal Empire
Louis Fenech's new work on the Zafarnama attributed to the Tenth Sikh Guru, Gobind Singh, engages with the growing literature on the Persian Shahnama traditions as well as that of the courtly tradi
Marking Boundaries and Building Bridges: Persian Scholarly Networks in Mughal Punjab
Soon after Emperor Jalal al-Din Muhammad Akbar adopted Persian as the language of state in 1581, both the Mughal Empire and the cultural sphere of Persian expanded together in South Asia.Persian had a long history in South Asia before the Mughals, which would continue in South Asia even as the Mughal Empire slowly retrenched, but the stories of the language and the state that advanced it in India are intrinsically linked.Its official role in stat…
Hardip Singh Syan, Sikh Militancy in the Seventeenth Century: Religious Violence in Mughal and Early Modern India (London: I.B. Tauris, 2013)
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Networks and fault lines in eighteenth-century Deccani literary communities: Lachmī Narāyan ‘Shafīq’ and his circle
By the end of the eighteenth century, emerging states in South Asia drew on successive waves of migration to staff their institutions. Scholars, poets and bureaucrats in these new states were entrusted with the crafting and maintenance of new bureaucratic systems and cultural spaces. The attempts to create shared bonds in these new spaces, however, also created tensions between those who were recent arrivals in these communities and those whose f…
Crafting literary Urdu: Mirza Hatim's engagement with Vali Dakhani
The emergence in eighteenth-century India of literary compositions that used the elite registers of what was, at the time, called 'Rekhtah', and later defined as Urdu, is poorly understood. Conventionally, after an initial infatuation in Delhi with the works of Vali Dakhani,1 a mid-century break is assumed, exemplified by the revision of Zuhur ud-Din Hatim's Divan as Divanzadah in the 1750s. Scholars have viewed this as a radical intervention in …
Resisting Religious Labels in Early Modern Punjab: Why Place Still Matters
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