The August 2022 issue opens with “Circuits of Culture in Early Modern South Asia: A Festschrift in Memory of Allison Busch.” A dear colleague and teacher, Allison Busch (1969–2019) was associate professor of Hindi literature in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. Busch's work appeared first in the pages of this journal in 2004 with “The Anxiety of Innovation: The Practice of Literary Science in the Hindi/Riti Tradition” (24:2), which inaugurated a series of major works, including her own 2011 monograph Poetry of Kings, and productively opened up critical intellectual venues for rethinking the early modern for South Asia in comparative and literary cultures frameworks. In this Festschrift are mentors, peers, and students, celebrating with their scholarship the rich, field-defining insights of Busch and seeding the soil for generations to come.
Two essays then explore the politics of knowledge and of...
