Contents: Vol. I: Preface. I. Hindu-Muslim cultural synthesis in North India and Sind: 1. Qazi Qadan: a pioneer Sindhi poet/Ali S. Asani. 2. In quest for the correct combination: the home-coming episode in Maulana Daud’s Indo-Sufi Masnavi Candayan/Naseem Hines. 3. Nakh-Sikh in Candayan/Shyam Manohar Pandey. 4. Madhumalati and Gulsan-I-isq: a question of originality/Peter Gaefke. 5. Visions of the unseen: rhetorical strategies in Bhakti and Sufi poetry/Thomas De Bruijn. 6. Jaysi’s Citrarekha/Mariola Offredi. II. Urdu Drama and poetry at the Muslim courts: 7. Heteroglossia in Amanat’s Indar Sabha/Kathryn Hansen. 8. Dakani’s Radha-Krishna imagery and canon formation in Urdu/Carla Petievich. III. Modern Indian Ismailism: 9. Historical and religious debates amongst Indian Ismailis 1840-1920/Zawahir Moir. IV. Social values and modes of devotion in Bengal: 10. Textual confrontations with female transgression in the Behula legend/Mandakranta Bose. 11. The theology of a lover’s quarrel: classical and contemporary interpretations of Krishna’s Humiliation/Donna M. Wulff. 12. Caitanya’s performances/Bozena Sliwczynska. V. Modes of transmission of religion in Gujarat: 13. Barahakkhara-kakka of Mahacandra Muni/H.C. Bhayani and Pritam Singhvi. 14. A unique Unison of the Saguna and the Nirguna in the Agamna Bar Mahina (the Barmasi) by Kayamuddin cisti/Balvant Jani. 15. The Saraju-songs: a living tradition within the Devi-worship ritual of the Vaisya Sutar and Sorathia and Bhopa Rabari of Saurashtra/Hasu Yajnik. 16. Sant-vani and Harijan Mahamargi Bhajan and Ismaili Ginan: a new appraisal of popular devotion in Saurasthra/Francoise Mallison. VI. Religious and literary traditions in Maharashtra and the Konkan: 17. Jnanadeva’s Six-handed God Ganesa/Gangadhar Morje. 18. Vitthal: sometimes adored, sometimes rejected changes in theological pattern/Irina Glushkova. 19. The untouchable women saint-poets of Maharashtra/Eleanor Zelliot. 20. Janabai as a mystic and hagiographer/Christopher Shelke. 21. Reconstruction of the history of medieval Maharashtra through Lavanis/Varsha S. Shirgaonkar. 22. The beginnings of Konkani literature/Jose Pereira.
Vol. II: VII. Mahabharata tradition in the vernaculars: 1. A narrative poet’s view of his material: Visnudas’s introduction to his Brajbhasa Pandav-carit (AD 1435)/Stuart McGregor. 2. The Vaisnava Parvan of the Assamese Mahabharata/W.L. Smith. VIII. Krsna cult in the Braj region a new appraisal: 3. Little Krsna’s play with the moon/Hans Bakker. 4. Uneasy partners: Balarama as embodiment of wilderness/A. Whitney Sanford. IX. Bhakti in Rajasthan: 5. Kabir and Mirabai in folk traditions of Western Rajasthan: Meghwal and Manganiyar repertoires/Nancy M. Martin. 6. Kabir : recited and Sung today in Rajasthan/Bahadur Singh. 7. Mira’s Yoga/Maya Burger. X. Textual and oral transmission: 8. A Vajrasuci in Hindi/David N. Lorenzen. 9. The Adi Granth of the Sikhs: a canon?/Winand M. Calleweart. 10. Different voices, different songs: early anthology versions of songs by Hariram Vyas/Heidi Pauwels. 11. The tradition of Varsotsav-pad-sangrah: a different perspective on Brajbhasa devotional poetry/Galina Rousseva-Sokolova. XI. Secularization of religious motifs in the eighteenth century: 12. Mundane and divine love in Anandghan’s poetry: an eighteenth century literary debate/Imre Bangha. 13. Forms of poetic enunciation in Ghananand/Ghanshyam Sharma. XII. The ritual and the popular two ways of interpreting devotion in modern times: 14. Devotional poetry in performance: Samajagayana at the temple of Sri Radharamana in Vrindaban/Selina Thielemann. 15. Bhakti in Hindi folktales/Teiji Sakata. General Informations: 1. Researches on early literature in New Indo-Aryan languages in Japan after 1980/Taigen Hashimoto. Sraddhanjali. Index.
