Postion:
Associate Professor of Hindi
Email:
imre.bangha@ames.ox.ac.uk
Faculty / College Address:
Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies / Wolfson College
Biography:
Imre Bangha is Associate Professor of Hindi at Oxford. He studied Indology in Budapest and holds a Ph.D. from Visva-Bharati. His research covers various genres, literary idioms and authors of early Hindi stretching from the fourteenth to the early nineteenth century. His publications include English, Hindi, Urdu and Hungarian books and articles on literature in Brajbhasha and other forms of classical Hindi. He also wrote and edited several books on the international reception of Tagore and Bengali culture.
Currently, he is researching the emergence of Hindi literary heritage, Rekhta poetry and early Hindustani. Additionally, he is editing classical Hindi texts such as the Jñānapañćamī-ćaupāī by Viddhaṇū, the Svargārohan by Viṣṇudās, the Kavitāvalī and the Hanumān-bāhuk by Tulsīdās as well as the free-standing poems and other works of Ānandghan, Bājīd and Ālam.
Educational Background
MA in Indology (Budapest)
PhD in Hindi (Santiniketan)
Research Interests:
- New Indo-Aryan languages, literary idioms and literatures,
- early modernity in literature
- vernacularisation in northern India,
- Indian aesthetics,
- prosody,
- manuscript transmission,
- oral-written interface
- text edition
- poetic translation into Hungarian
Current Projects:
- The Roots of Hindi and Urdu (Leverhulme Major Research Grant, 2005-8)
- Tulsīdās: The last poems (in Collaboration with P. Lutgendorf)
- The Kavitavali of Tulsidas: Critical Edition.
- Poems from the Cloud of Bliss: Ānandghan's Universalisation of the Krishna Tradition
- Critical edition of the quatrains of Ālam
Monographs
- Where does Hindi come from? The Emergence of a vernacular Literary Culture 1350-1450
- Rekhta: Hindustani literature before modern Hindi and Urdu
Bibliography
Courses Taught:
Doctoral students:
Syed Muhammad Khalid: Crooked Truths: Themes, Circulation and Reception of Indian Satire c. 1947-1990 (co-supervised with Prof. Santanu Das)
Natasha Chawla: Message of the Forest: An Ontopoetic Exploration into Tagore’s Nature Philosophy (current, co-supervised with Prof. Jessica Frazier)
Recent Publications:
Jöttem a Gangesz partjairól: Bengáli kultúra és magyar irodalom. (‘I have come from the banks of the Ganges’: Bengali Culture and Hungarian Literature). L'Harmattan, Budapest, 2011.
It’s a City Showman’s Show: The Jain Devotional Poetry of Ānandghan. Penguin India, 2013. (Introduction and Notes; Annotated English Translation, in cooperation with Richard Fynes).
Bhakti Beyond the Forest: Current Research on Early Modern Religious Literatures in North India 2003-2009. Manohar, New Delhi, 2013. (Edited volume of papers presented at the Tenth International Bhakti Conference: Early Modern Literatures in North India: Sapientia – Hungarian University of Transylvania, Miercurea Ciuc, 22-24 July 2009.)
Scorpion in the Hand: Brajbhāṣā Court Poetry from Central India around 1800: A critical edition of Ṭhākur’s Kabittas. (Introduction, Critical edition with English notes on the text, English Translation of selected quatrains) Manohar, New Delhi, 2014.
Rabindranath Tagore: One Hundred Years of Global Reception. Orient Blackswan, New Delhi, 2014 (Edited volume in collaboration with Martin Kämpchen. Editorial adviser: Uma Dasgupta)
Tagore: Beyond his Language. Primus Books, New Delhi, 2017. (Edited volume).
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