Arthur Dudney

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Dr Arthur Dudney (Faculty of Oriental Studies) is pursuing new research on the history of philology in South Asia. The two-year project considers how philology—a traditional discipline combining what we would consider literary criticism, rhetoric, and linguistics—was imbricated in the exercise of political power in Delhi Sultanate and Mughal India. Persian, the primary language for the project, is effectively a dead language in the Indian Subcontinent today, but was in prior centuries a vibrant language of high culture and administration. The present research makes use of materials that are not typically the focus of intellectual history, such as dictionaries and works of literary criticism.

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