Tulasidasa- A Bibliography

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Tulasidasa A Bibliography offers for the first time a comprehensive, systematic and thoroughly classified corpus of research materials available on the sixteenth century Hindi poet. Containing almost 1,800 entries, the bibliography includes references to works in around twenty languages and dialects of India as well as in English (7% of the total), French, German and Russian. Divided in twenty sections, the present monograph gives separate treatment to each of the compositions attributed to Tulasidasa. In each case notice is given to editions of the text, translations (if any) and critical studies based on that particular title. Wherever available, the bibliography cites articles, chapters in anthologies, books and dissertations on matters of dating, on comparative issues, on concerns involving poetics and on similar scholarly investigations. One major section, devoted to the Ramacaritamanasa, gives critically classified listing of 700 items which are of immense interest to every student of the masterpiece. In the other major section "General Studies" one witnesses the variety of responses Tulasidasa's work has continued to elicit even in our own day.

Dr. Sudha Verma (1941-1987) obtained M.A. degree in Hindi from Bhagalapur University, obtaining a first class with a gold medal for standing first in 1961 batch.

The author was awarded a Ph. D. degree from the Magadh University for a comparative study of the story elements and characters in the Ramacaritamanasa and the extra-Indian versions of the Ramayana (Videshon Men Ramakatha Ke Paripreksya Men Ramacharitamanasa Ki Kathavastu Tatha Charitron Ka Anushilana). For completing this work the author conducted research in Laos and Thailand in 1970- 71. She also obtained a two years Diploma in French from Comite de L Alliance Francaise, Vientiane, Laos.

For her published work, Agneya Asia Men Ramakatha (1982), Dr. Sudha Verma won Camille Bulcke Award from Government of Bihar in 1986 and Hanuman Mandir Trust award from Calcutta in 1985. Her other work Manasa Ke Patra Videshi Ramakatha Ke Sandarbha Men (1987) is equally acclaimed for its deep insight in countless variations in the story of Rama.

For the preparation of the Tulasidasa A Bibliography the author worked as Honorary Fellow, Centre for South Asian Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (U.S.A.) in 1982.

Beginning her career as lecturer in Hindi Department in T.N.B. College, Bhagalpur in 1961, she rose to the status of Reader in the Magadh University where she taught Hindi for two decades in Gautama Buddha Mahila College, Gaya.

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