Using forgotten manuscripts from little-known archives, Tyler W. Williams reveals Hindi’s socially complex literary past ...

The Duke India Initiative and Asian and Middle Eastern Studies jointly organized the talk this week, "Words and Silences A Discussion on Contemporary Women Poets in Hindi." Guest speaker Rekha Sethi, ...

A growing number of historians of Hindi literature believe that the Hindi literary tradition begins with the invention of the Sufi romance and its first known example, the Candāyan (1379 CE) of ...

Precolonial copies of pem-kathā works were rarely objects for “private” enjoyment as we understand books to be today; instead, they circulated within networks of connoisseurs who used books as a ...