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Prashant Keshavmurthy

Prashant Keshavmurthy is Associate Professor of Persian-Iranian Studies at McGill University. He is the author of Persian Authorship and Canonicity in Late Mughal Delhi: Building an Ark (Routledge, 2016) and the co-translator of Sohrab Sepehri, The Eight Books: A Complete English Translation (Brill, 2022). He is finishing a complete blank verse translation of Amir Khusraw’s epic poem The Nine Skies and writing a monograph on craving and craft in the quintet of the great twelfth-century Persian poet Nizami of Ganja.

Essays

<strong>A Novel Braj Poetics of Sainthood: An Interview with Dalpat Singh Rajpurohit</strong>

The following includes an introduction and an excerpt from an interview by Prashant Keshavmurthy (Associate professor of Persian-Iranian Studies at McGill University) with Dalpat Singh Rajpurohit (Assistant professor of South Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin). The discussion features Rajpurohit’s new book, Sundar ke svapn: ārambhik ādhuniktā, Dādūpanth aur Sundardās kī kavitā (2022).