About the Author

Françoise Mallison, Directeur d'Études Emeritus at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Études, Section des Sciences historiques et Philologiques, Paris, specializes in the medieval religious culture of northern India and Gujarat. She studies the devotional literature of Vaiṣṇavas, Sants, and Muslims in Gujarati language, and has published translations of Narsiṃha Mahetā and the lyrics of Swaminarayan as well as on articles on Ismā'īlī vernacular poetry.