Copyright

Monika Horstmann

Published On

2015-10-05

Page Range

pp. 31-60

Language

  • English

Print Length

29 pages

1. The Example in Dadupanthi Homiletics

  • Monika Horstmann (author)
Chapter of: Tellings and Texts: Music, Literature and Performance in North India (pp. 31–60)

Monika Horstmann, a senior scholar in old Hindi text studies, digs deep into Rajasthani Dadupanthi sources to give us a picture of how long sectarian sermons have been built around a founding saint’s pithy verses. Among other points, she draws attention to the ways in which preachers give the verses’ potentially universal metaphors some local references.

Contributors

Monika Horstmann

(author)

Monika Horstmann (a.k.a. Monika Boehm-Tettelbach) retired as Head of the Department of Modern South Asian Languages and Literatures, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University. Her research focuses on early modern North Indian literatures and religious movements and on the interface between religion and politics. Recent books include Der Zusammenhang der Welt (2009) and Jaipur 1778: The Making of a King (2013), and a volume co-edited with Heidi R.M. Pauwels, Indian Satire in the Period of First Modernity (2012).