10 Jun Into the Twilight
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With ‘Into the Twilight of Sanskrit Court Poetry: The Sena Salon of Bengal and Beyond’, Jesse Ross Knutson demonstrates how a local and rural sensibility came to infuse the cosmopolitan language of Sanskrit, creating a regional literary idiom founded on a cosmopolitan-local dialectic that would define the emergence of the Bengali language and its literary traditions.