Identify the modern resource precisely
CiNii Books records Hir Damodar: Context, Translation and Analysis under Surinder Singh, published by Manohar in New Delhi in 2025. It describes an English-language book of 385 pages, with a bibliography on pages 369–377 and an index. Its subject description identifies Punjabi love poetry translated into English. These particulars offer a traceable starting point for a reader seeking Damodar’s narrative rather than assuming that every publication called Heer presents the same author or wording.[1]
The record lists a copy at the University of Tokyo’s Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia and gives ISBN 9789360803759 and NCIDBD 13574868. Those identifiers are useful when requesting the book through another library. The catalogue establishes a modern publication’s identity and holding, while its authority headings do not independently prove when the poem was composed or what Damodar personally witnessed.[1]
Place the reading within an explicit historical enquiry
The Central University of Punjab’s history syllabus for the 2025–27 cohort lists Singh’s Hir Damodar among readings for Panjab in Transition: Polity, Society and Culture. That course connects textual and epigraphic sources with questions about political power, regional society and religious traditions. Its later units place Sufi poetry alongside Mughal authority and ask students to trace Punjab’s qissa-kaav. This provides one documented academic setting in which to approach the romance as a historical source.[2]
A reading list does not resolve the evidence
The syllabus assigns the book 2024, while CiNii catalogues it as 2025. Retain that difference until the consulted copy’s title and copyright pages settle its edition. The course’s inclusion of a text establishes its place in a particular curriculum; it cannot certify each narrative episode or replace examination of the translation, notes and manuscript basis. Use the syllabus to develop questions, then cite the edition and passage actually read when making an argument about Punjab’s past.[2]
Sources & notes
Source records include access dates and, where known, limits on what was examined. Checks used AI assistance; independent human or specialist review has not been completed.
- National Institute of Informatics, CiNii Books. Hir Damodar: Context, Translation and Analysis, NCIDBD 13574868 ↗institutional union-catalogue record · Source date: publication date not established · Locator: Title, SurinderSingh/Manohar 2025 imprint,385 pages, bibliography 369–377, English-language subject description and Tokyo holding. Accessed 2026-11-01.Actual complete bibliographic body inspected. Catalogue authority heading active 16 thcentury is not treated as secure composition dating or proof of eyewitness status. Catalogue gives 2025; syllabus gives 2024, a discrepancy retained. Full modern translation, underlying manuscript and index not read.Return to Identify the modern resource precisely, paragraph 1 ↑Return to Identify the modern resource precisely, paragraph 2 ↑
- Department of History, Central University of Punjab, Bathinda. M.A. Programme in History, batch 2025–27: MHIS-564 ↗primary university course document · Source date: publication date not established · Locator: Printed pp.109–112:course title/outcomes, units on political power, Sufi poetry and qissa-kaav; suggested reading Singh 2024 HirDamodar. Accessed 2026-11-01.Actual cover and relevant course/readings pages inspected in PDF, not merely indexed text.2025–27 is cohort designation; publication date unknown. Suggested reading is evidence of curriculum use, not endorsement of every argument or proof a literary episode happened. Other course readings not read through this bibliography.Return to Place the reading within an explicit historical enquiry, paragraph 1 ↑Return to A reading list does not resolve the evidence, paragraph 1 ↑
Record PH-COL-0017 · English edition · human review not performed