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A Hindi Writer's View of Social, Political and Language Issues of his Time: Attitudes of Hariścandra of Banaras (1850–1885)1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

R. S. McGregor
R. S. McGregor
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University of Cambridge
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The individual works of Hariścandra in prose, poetry and drama have been little analysed or exploited by western scholars for the light they throw on social and political attitudes, and on language issues, in north India in their author's time. Yet many of these works are of interest from the above point of view. One such work is an essay based on an address given by Hariścandra in the town of Ballia, to the east of Banaras, in 1877. In the following pages the content of this interesting essay is outlined and analysed; an introductory account is first provided of Hariścandra, his activity, and its historical context.

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Modern Asian Studies , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , February 1991 , pp. 91 - 100
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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8 Ibid., 896; Rām-carit-manas, 4. 30.

9 Granthāvalī, 897.

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11 Mātāprasād, Gupta's edition of one recension of the Prthyirāj-rāso (Jhansi, 1965) gives a very different text: see pp. 321–8 for verses dealing with the incident, and especially v.45, p. 324.Google Scholar

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