The poet Kablr a selection from whose songs is here for the first time offered to English readers is one of the most interesting personalities in the history of I ndian mysticism. Born in or near Benares of Mohammedan parents and probably about the year 1440 he became in early life a disciple of the celebrated Hindu ascetic Ramananda. Ramananda had brought to Northern India the religious revival which Ramanuja the great twelfth-century reformer of Brahmanism had initiated in the South...