Professor Imre Bangha
Course Director for MSc/MPhil Modern South Asian Studies, Associate Professor of Hindi
I teach the both the core and optional language courses in Hindi, Urdu, Old Hindi and Bengali. My research interests lie primarily in Old Hindi Poetry, including the emergence of Hindi (including Khari Boli) as a literary dialect in various scripts; textual transmission and Hindi manuscript culture; Hindi classicist poetry and the continuity of classical Sanskrit aesthetics in court literature and the work of individual poets: Vishnudas, Kabir, Tulsidas, Bajid, Anandghan, Thakur. For further information, visit https://www.orinst.ox.ac.uk/people/imre-bangha
