Devotional
Literature in South Asia : Current Research 1997-2000 : Proceedings of the
Eighth International Conference on Early Literature in New Indo-Aryan Languages,
Leuven, 23-26 August 2000/edited by Winand M. Callewaert and Dieter Taillieu.
New Delhi, Manohar, 2002, xxii, 324 p., $39. ISBN 81-7304-444-9.
Contents: Preface. I. Reports: 1. The early Sikh scriptural tradition/M.S. Ahluwalia. 2. Anandgham, Broughton and Tulsidas: report on three years’ research/Imre Bangha. 3. Report on my published writings on the Bhakti literature in medieval Gujarati/H.C. Bhayani. 4. In the company of Bengali mediaeval literature/France Bhattacharya. 5. Beginnings: legends of origin in the Krttivasi Ramayana/Mandakranta Bose. 6. Word-indexes, text-editions and a dictionary/Winand M. Callewaert. 7. Ramananda and his Hindi works/Pinuccia Caracchi. 8. Positions in the field of mediaeval Indian culture/Thomas De Bruijn. 9. Abstract and review/Balwant Singh Dhillon. 10. The lyrics of thumrr. Hindi poetry in a musical genre/Lalita Du Perron. 11. Old Sants and new traditions/Daniel Gold. 12. Report on Bhakti research/John S. Hawley. 13. Kabir oral traditions: a research proposal/Linda Hess. 14. Research report/Naseem Hines. 15. Research report, 1998-2000/Monika Horstmann. 16. Research on various traditions in devotional literature/Balwant Jani. 17. Bhakti as reflected in the Caritamrta/Pranabananda Jash. 18. Oral and written traditions in Rajasthan (Pabuji)/J. Kamphorst. 19. Report on research/Catharina Kiehnle. 20. Research in Gujarat/Francoise Mallison. 21. Research on Advaitacarya/Rebecca J. Manring. 22. Interrogating the oral and written traditions of Mirabai and Kabir/Nancy M. Martin. 23. The Romavali, a work ascribed to Gorakhnath: analysis of an unpublished manuscript from the Jodhpur collection/Mariola Offredi. 24. Research report/Heidi Pauwels. 25. Svami Ram Tirtha in Punjab/Robin Rinehart. 26. Svami Haridasi and the Haridas Sampraday/Lucy Rosenstein. 27. Krishna Bhakti from a playful perspective/Galina Rousseva Sokolova. 28. A Hindi folktale related with the Hindu festival of Bhaiya Duj/Teiji Sakata. 29. On editing the songs of Lalan Fakir using both oral and written sources/Carol Salomon. 30. Research report/Whitney Sanford. 31. Virshaiva Pantha in 12 century Maharashtra/Surekha Sawant. 32. Report/Michael Shapiro. 33. Introducing Gadadhar Bhatt/Swapna Sharma. 34. Bhakti as a vision/Christopher Shelke. 35. A study of the historical development of Bhakti found in five commentaries on the Bhagavadgita/Iwao Shima. 36. Remarks on some aspects of Bhakti/Bahadur Singh. 37. The Mahabharata in eastern India/William L. Smith. 38. Bhakti in lexicography and Guru Nanak Bani/O.P. Vasishta. 39. Bhakti literature in the oral tradition of Gujarat/Hasu Yajnik. 40. Tracing Cokhamela/Eleanor Zelliot. II. Bibliography. Index.
"This book contains the reports given at the Eighth ‘Bhakti Conference’ organized in Leuven in August 2000. Forty scholars came to Leuven, hailing from fourteen different countries—from Japan to the west coast of the United States—each one bringing his or her expertise and experience. Nearly all the reports are published here. In addition, another twenty scholars sent a report or their list of publications. The result is a fascinating overview of the very wide field that Bhakti studies have become, with a list of 1162 books and articles, and reports about Bengali, ‘Braj’, Gujarati, Marathi, Punjabi and Rajasthani literature; lexicography, musicology, Santa literature, Sikhism; Gorakhanath, Kabir, Krishna Bhakti, Lalan Fakir, Mirabai, Ramananda, Surdas, Tulsidas, and many other topics of research. A detailed index makes all this matter easily accessible." (jacket)