RESEARCH GROUPS
South Asian Language and Literature
Convenor: Dr. Imre Bangha, University of Oxford
The South Asian Language and Literature research group is an international consortium of scholars working on critical text-editions of works in Braj bhasha and the other pre-modern dialects. Between the 16th and 19th centuries a substantial corpus of literature was produced in north India. Although these works form the basis of Hindi as a literary culture, a large proportion of them have not been published and few critically edited.
The research group is exploring the rich literary heritage of north India from the 16th century through the edition of some of its key texts, thus fulfilling a task which is fundamental to literary scholarship. This is urgent work as Braj bhasha skills decline in India and western Hindi scholarship favours increasingly theoretical approaches.
The first project the group is exploring is a critical edition of the Kavitavali of Tulsidas.
Group members
- Dr Imre Bangha (Lecturer in Hindi, University of Oxford ; Head, Alexander Csoma de Korös Centre for Oriental Studies, Miercurea Ciuc) (Convenor)
- Dániel Balogh (Independent scholar, Budapest)
- Eszter Berki (Independent scholar, Budapest)
- Gábor Karsai (Research Scholar, Centre for Project Studies; Dean, A Tan Kapuja Buddhista Foiskola)
- Dr Mária Négyesi (Reader in Hindi, Head, Dept. of Ind-European Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest)
- Eszter Somogyi (Independent scholar, Budapest)
Colophon of a Kavitavali-Hanumanbahuk manuscript, 19th century. Private collection, Sitapur.