Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Transliteration -- Note on Dating Systems -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- I. Between Texts and Practices -- 1. The Example in Dadupanthi Homiletics -- 2. Making it Vernacular in Agra: The Practice of Translation by Seventeenth-Century Jains -- 3. World Enough and Time: Religious Strategy and Historical Imagination in an Indian Sufi Tale -- 4. Hearing Mo'jizat in South Asian Shi'ism -- II. Books and Performances, Books for Performance -- 5. Note to Self: What Marathi Kirtankars' Notebooks Suggest about Literacy, Performance, and the Travelling Performer in Pre-Colonial Maharashtra -- 6. A Handbook for Storytellers: The Ṭir�az al-akhb�ar and the Qissa Genre -- 7. Did Surdas Perform the Bhāgavata-purāṇa? -- 8. Text, Orality, and Performance in Newar Devotional Music -- III. Written Clues about Performed Texts -- 9. Listening for the Context: Tuning in to the Reception of Riti Poetry -- 10. Reading the Acts and Lives of Performers in Mughal Persian Texts -- 11. Persian Poets on the Streets: The Lore of Indo-Persian Poetic Circles in Late Mughal India -- 12. Texts and Tellings: Kathas in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries -- 13. A Curious King, a Psychic Leper, and the Workings of Karma: Bajid's Entertaining Narratives -- IV. Musical Knowledge and Aesthetics -- 14. Raga in the Early Sixteenth Century -- 15. Learning to Taste the Emotions: The Mughal Rasika -- 16. Patterns of Composition in the Seventeenth-Century Bengali Literature of Arakan -- 17. The Musical Lives of Texts: Rhythms and Communal Relationships among the Nizamis and Some of Their Neighbours in South and West Asia -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.

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