In the Shade of the Golden Palace : lol and Middle Bengali Poetics in Arakan

In the Shade of the Golden Palace explores the work of the prolific Bengali poet lol (fl. 1651-71), who translated five narrative poems and one versified treatise from medieval Hindi and Persian into Bengali. This book is a unique guide for readers of Middle Bengali poetry, a detailed study of the cultural history of the frontier region of Arakan, and an original contribution to the poetics of South Asian literatures.