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Poezja jako forma zapisu historii w Indiach przedkolonialnych. Expositio rerum gestarum w traktacie o metodzie

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Borek P.

Przegląd Orientalistyczny

2017

issue 1-2

3-17

This article is an attempt to identify history in an early modern text belonging to the Hindi literary tradition. The theoretical foundations that enable such a venture are to be found in the narrativist philosophy of history, since it afforded equal status to those discourses about the past which do not meet the narrow criteria of world-history. V. Rao, D. Shulman and S. Subrahmanyam, in their work on South India, proposed that an analysis of texture allows history to be identified in those compositions that do not belong to the Western tradition of historiography. It is worth verifying whether their method applies to other literary traditions of India. The same researchers undermined the legitimacy of talking about prose as the only possible way of writing history – by claiming that history is written in the dominant literary genre of a particular community, space and time. Their hypotheses are hereby confronted with passages from Bhūṣan’s Śivrājbhūṣaṇ (1673).

The Reliable Poem. A 17th-century Hindi Poet in his Words

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Borek P.

Cracow Indological Studies

2015

vol. 17: Crossing over “on the Birds’ Wings”: South Asian Literature in Local and Global Contexts

29-48

The article is devoted to the 17th-century poet Bhushan, author of Śivarājabhūsana, a rītigranth most probably commissioned by the emerging Maratha ruler Shivaji Bhonsle. The existing histories of Hindi literature provide multiple accounts on the life of the poet, often calling them the hearsay tradition. Although many of them are drawn from a Maratha chronicle (bakhar), a proper study on the source of such accounts is still lacking. One more source that gives a chance to retrieve the curricula of Bhushan is Śivarājabhūṣaṇa, the only homogenic text that is attributed to the poet. The manuscripts and the editions of this text, especially the stanzas referring to the poet himself, do not show significant changes or interpolations. It allows us to treat it as a relatively reliable source, and therefore the treatise can serve as a basis for the reconstruction of the poet’s life and the circumstances of its composition. All portions of the text which refer to his biography are presented in order to provide complete data that can be drawn out of the internal evidence.

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Poezja jako forma zapisu historii w Indiach przedkolonialnych. Expositio rerum gestarum w traktacie o metodzie

The Reliable Poem. A 17th-century Hindi Poet in his Words