Persian Authorship and Canonicity in Late Mughal Delhi - Keshavmurthy, Prashant (McGill University)

Persian Authorship and Canonicity in Late Mughal Delhi situates the diverse textual projects of 'Abd al-Qadir "Bidil" and his students within the context of politically threatened but poetically prestigious Delhi, exploring the writers' use of the Perso-Arabic and Hindavi literary canons to fashion their authorship.