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Haba Khatoon
Life and works of Ḥabbah K̲h̲ātūn, d. 1605, Kashmiri religious poet.
Rupa Bhavani
On the life and works of Kashmiri mystic poetess, Rūpā, d. 1721.
Tales from the Rajatarangini
Based on the chronicle of Kashmir by Kalhana and its complements in Sanskrit and Persian.
Medieval Kashmir
The Inherent Genius Of Sultan Zain-Ul-Abdin (1420-70 A.D.) Prompted Him To Commission Jonaraja Pandit To Record In Sanskrit Verse The History Of Kashmir From Where Kalhana Had Left In 1151 A.D. It Was, Perhaps, The Most Important Decision Of The Sultan.J.G. Dutt Himself Made History In 1879 A.D. When He Presented To The World The Earliest English Translation Of The First Part Of The Celebrated Work Of Kalhana, Viz., The Rajatarangini. It Was Entitled Kings Of Kashmira And The Second Part, Appearing In 1887, Completed The English Version Of Kalhana S Masterpiece. Dutt Went Ahead With His Labour Of Love And Published In 1898 The Third Volume Comprising The Works Of Jonaraja And His Successors....
Befarmaid
India has always been a region of multiple cultures and ethnicities comprising a multifaceted, colorful and genuinely diverse civilization of innumerable peoples, beliefs and languages. The political domination of Muslim dynasties from Central Asia from the Ghaznavid conquests onwards led to "Persian" being grafted into the Indian subcontinent as the official language of governance and high culture. As classical Persian culture fell into abeyance during the Middle Ages and the Islamic West disintegrated into chaos, India fostered a Persian cultural renaissance of unparalleled literary achievement by émigrés to India as well as by Indians themselves. However, from the beginning of the seven...
The Mughal Aviary: Women’s Writings in Pre-Modern India
This volume delves into the literary lives of four Muslim women in pre-modern India. Three of them, Gulbadan Begam (1523-1603), the youngest daughter of Emperor Babur, Jahanara (1614-1681), the eldest daughter of Emperor Shah Jahan, and Zeb-un-Nissa (1638-1702), the eldest daughter of Emperor Aurangzeb, belonged to royalty. Thus, they were inhabitants of the Mughal 'zenana', an enigmatic liminal space of qualified autonomy and complex equations of gender politics. Amidst such constructs, Gulbadan Begam’s 'Humayun-Nama' (biography of her half-brother Humayun, reflecting on the lives of Babur’s wives and daughters), Jahanara’s hagiographies glorifying Mughal monarchy, and Zeb-un-Nissa’...
Five Decades
On the completion of fiftieth year of Sahitya Akademi.
