The present volume forms ninth in a series of proceedings of the triennial Conference on Early Devotional Literature in New Indo-Aryan Languages. The proceedings unite twenty contributions which reflect original research on Bhakti literature in non-Sanskrit and non-Islamicate traditions and also the non-Dravidian. Contributors include Imre Bangha, Maren Bellwinkel-Schempp, Allison Busch, Winand M. Callewaert, Vasudha Dalmia, Balwant Singh Dhillon, John Stratton Hawley, Rohini Mokashi-Punekar, Ingrid Schumann, Danuta Stasik among many others. (With DVD).