International Research journal of Management Sociology & Humanities
( ISSN 2277 - 9809 (online) ISSN 2348 - 9359 (Print) ) New DOI : 10.32804/IRJMSH
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VERNACULARIZATION OF MUGHAL LITERARY CULTURE
1 Author(s): SHREEKANT KUMAR CHANDAN
Vol - 5, Issue- 4 , Page(s) : 116 - 124 (2014 ) DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/IRJMSH
Mughal historiography has seen some fruitful engagements on the process of the Mughal patronage to Brajbhasha poets at imperial and sub imperial level. Similarly, why Mughal Persian poets of repute were composing some part of their literary work in the vernacular like Braj Bhasha or Awadhi has been looked afresh in recent scholarship. Broadly speaking, all these intellectual engagements while trying to answer some specific questions regarding use of vernacular for literary composition in the Mughal world also offered a particular model to explain the complex cultural process of Vernacularization of the Mughal literary culture in the late seventeenth and eighteenth century earlier marked by the dominance of Persian literature and literati. Other scholarly attempt had directly engaged with the question of cosmopolitan and vernacular and tried to explore how vernaculars replaced Persian, the cosmopolitan language and emerged as languages of power in the late 18th century by linking political changes with developments in the literary field which again can be accommodated in the umbrella framework of vernacularization of Mughal literary culture.