The First Published Anthology of Hindi Poets, Thomas Duer Broughton’s: Selections From The Popular Poetry of the Hindoos 1814
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Edition
1st Ed.
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ISBN
8186962352
Length
185p., Index; 22cm
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In the first years of the nineteenth century a British army officer called Thomas Duer Broughton became enchanted by the songs and poems that his soldiers knew by heart. He started to get them noted down and eventually his collection became the first published anthology of Hindi poets. What sort of poems were memorised by Indian sipahis at that time? Surprisingly enough most of them were not folk poems but apart from some devotional quatrains and songs, were ...
