Krishna's Neglected Responsibilties: Religious devotion and social critique in eighteenth-century North India

This article examines the literary strategies employed by a devotional poet who wrote about recent events in the eighteenth century, in order to shed light on contemporary notions of social responsibility. Taking the poetic treatment of Ahmad Shah Abdali's invasion of North India and the sackin...

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Main Author: Williams, R
Format: Journal article
Published: Cambridge University Press 2015