International Research journal of Management Sociology & Humanities
( ISSN 2277 - 9809 (online) ISSN 2348 - 9359 (Print) ) New DOI : 10.32804/IRJMSH
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ROLE OF ELITE MERCHANTS IN PROMOTING BRAJBHASHA LITERARY CULTURE
1 Author(s): SHREEKANT KUMAR CHANDAN
Vol - 5, Issue- 2 , Page(s) : 878 - 884 (2014 ) DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/IRJMSH
In studies on literary culture, the gaze of the scholar is often fixed on the members of political ruling class who patronized the poets and played critical role in the promotion of a literary culture. This research paper is a departure from such an intellectual practice and tries to highlight the role of mercantile elite in promoting brajbhasha literary culture in both roles, as patron and sometime as poet themselves. In the following paragraphs, with the help of Banarsidas and Dev ‘s literary career and their literary oeuvre, we would try to disentangle the web of mercantile patronage to brajbhasha literary culture and its cultural and political implications.