Culture and Circulation takes an innovative approach to early modern Indian literature. The authors foreground the complex hybridity of literary genres and social milieus, capturing elements that have eluded traditional literary history. In this book, jointly edited by Allison Busch and Thomas de Bruijn, Hindi authors rub shoulders with their Persian counterparts in the courts of Mughal India; the fame of Mirabai, a poetess from Rajasthan, travels to Punjab; the sayings of Kabir are found to be as difficult to pin down as the wandering holy men who transmitted them. Drawing on new archives in several Indian languages, Culture and Circulation presents fresh ideas that will be of interest to scholars of Indian literature, religious studies, and early modern history. The current reprint makes this book available to a larger audience in India, where it will find a readership among those interested in the history of cultural traditions that continue to have a meaning in present-day Indian society. Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Persian as a Passe-Partout: The Case of Mirza Abd al-Qadir Bidil and his Hindu Disciples. 3. Pirates, Poets, and Merchants: Bengali Language and Literature in Seventeenth-Century Mrauk-U. 4. The Court of Abd-ur-Rahim Khan-i Khanan as a Bridge between Iranian and Indian Cultural traditions. 5. Mirabai at the Court of Guru Gobind Singh. 6. Shifting Semantics in Early Modern North Indian Poetry: Circulation of Culture and Meaning. 7. The Gopis of the Jnandev Gatha. 8. Poetry in Motion: Literary Circulation in Mughal India. 9. Krishna is the Truth of Man: Mir Abdul Wahid Bilgrami s Haqaʾiq-i Hindi (Indian Truths) and the Circulation of Dhrupad and Bishnupad. 10. Culture in Circulation in Eighteenth-Century North India: Urdu Poetry by a Rajput Krishna Devotee. 11. A Braj Poet in Colonial Times. Notes on Editors and Contributors. Index.