Fills a gap in scholarship on Indian culture and power between 1500 and 1800, arguing that we can't know how colonialism changed South Asia unless we know what there was to be changed.
Fills a gap in scholarship on Indian culture and power between 1500 and 1800, arguing that we can't know how colonialism changed South Asia unless we know what there was to be changed.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Sheldon Pollock is the William B. Ransford Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Studies in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. He is the author of The Language of the Gods in the World of Men: Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in Premodern India; the editor of a number of books, including Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia; and a co-editor of Cosmopolitanism, also published by Duke University Press.
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Acknowledgments ix Introduction / Sheldon Pollock 1 Part I. Communication, Knowledge, and Power 1. The Languages of Science in Early Modern India / Sheldon Pollock 19 2. Bad Language and Good Language: Lexical Awareness in the Cultural Politics of Peninsular India, ca. 1300-1800 / Sumit Guha 49 3. A New Imperial Idiom in the Sixteenth Century: Krishnadevaraya and His Political Theory of Vijayanagara / Velcheru Narayana Rao, David Shulman, and Sanjay Subrahmanyam 69 Part II. Literary Consciousness, Practices, and Institutions in North India 4. The Anxiety of Innovation: The Practice of Literary Science in the Hindi Riti Tradition / Allison Busch 115 5. Writing Devotion: The Dynamics of Textual Transmission n the Kavitavali of Tulsidas / Imre Bangha 140 6. The Teaching of Braj, Gujarati, and Bardi Poetry at the Court of Kutch: The Bhuj Brajbhasa Pathsala (1749-1948) / Françoise Mallison 171 Part III. Inside the World of Indo-Persian Thought 7. The Making of a Munshi / Muzaffar Alam and Sanjay Subrahmanyam 185 8. Pages from the Book of Religions: Encountering Difference in Mughal India / Aditya Behl 210 9. "If There Is a Paradise on Earth, It Is Here": Urban Ethnography in Indo-Persian Poetic and Historical Texts / Sunil Sharma 240 10. Early Persianate Modernity / Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi 257 Part IV. Early Modernities of Tibetan Knowledge 11. New Scholarship in Tibet, 1650-1700 / Kurtis R. Schaeffer 291 12. Experience, Empiricism, and the Fortunes of Authority: Tibetan Medicine and Buddhism on the Eve of Modernity / Janet Gyatso 311 13. Just Where on Jambudvipa Are We? New Geographical Knowledge and Old Cosmological Schemes in Eighteenth-century Tibet / Matthew T. Kapstein 336 Contributors 365 Index 369
Acknowledgments ix Introduction / Sheldon Pollock 1 Part I. Communication, Knowledge, and Power 1. The Languages of Science in Early Modern India / Sheldon Pollock 19 2. Bad Language and Good Language: Lexical Awareness in the Cultural Politics of Peninsular India, ca. 1300-1800 / Sumit Guha 49 3. A New Imperial Idiom in the Sixteenth Century: Krishnadevaraya and His Political Theory of Vijayanagara / Velcheru Narayana Rao, David Shulman, and Sanjay Subrahmanyam 69 Part II. Literary Consciousness, Practices, and Institutions in North India 4. The Anxiety of Innovation: The Practice of Literary Science in the Hindi Riti Tradition / Allison Busch 115 5. Writing Devotion: The Dynamics of Textual Transmission n the Kavitavali of Tulsidas / Imre Bangha 140 6. The Teaching of Braj, Gujarati, and Bardi Poetry at the Court of Kutch: The Bhuj Brajbhasa Pathsala (1749-1948) / Françoise Mallison 171 Part III. Inside the World of Indo-Persian Thought 7. The Making of a Munshi / Muzaffar Alam and Sanjay Subrahmanyam 185 8. Pages from the Book of Religions: Encountering Difference in Mughal India / Aditya Behl 210 9. "If There Is a Paradise on Earth, It Is Here": Urban Ethnography in Indo-Persian Poetic and Historical Texts / Sunil Sharma 240 10. Early Persianate Modernity / Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi 257 Part IV. Early Modernities of Tibetan Knowledge 11. New Scholarship in Tibet, 1650-1700 / Kurtis R. Schaeffer 291 12. Experience, Empiricism, and the Fortunes of Authority: Tibetan Medicine and Buddhism on the Eve of Modernity / Janet Gyatso 311 13. Just Where on Jambudvipa Are We? New Geographical Knowledge and Old Cosmological Schemes in Eighteenth-century Tibet / Matthew T. Kapstein 336 Contributors 365 Index 369
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