TY - BOOK AU - Orsini, Francesca AU - Orsini,Francesca TI - Before the Divide: Hindi and Urdu Literary Culture SN - 9788125042631 U1 - R70.1 PY - 2011/// CY - New Delhi PB - Orient Longman Ltd N1 - includes index and biblioraphy; Rekhta: Poetry in Mixed Language The Emergence of Khari Boli Literature in North India IMRE BANGHA Riti and Register Lexical Variation in Courtly Braj Bhasha Texts ALLISON BUSCH Dialogism in a Medieval Genre The Case of the Avadhi Epics THOMAS DE BRUHN Barahmasas in Hindi and Urdu FRANCESCA ORSINI Sadarang, Adarang, Sabrang Multi-coloured poetry in Hindustani Music LALITA DU PERRON Looking Beyond Gul-o-bulbul Observations on Marsiyas by Fazli and Sauda CHRISTINA OESTERHELD vi Contents 8. Changing Literary Patterns in Eighteenth Century 222 North India Quranic Translations and the Development of Urdu Prose MEHR AFSHAN FAROOQI 9. Networks, Patrons, and Genres for Late Braj 249 Bhasha Poets Ratnakar and Hariaudh VALERIE RITTER Contributors 277 Bibliography 279 Index 297 ER -