Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia (eBook, PDF)

Explorations in the Intellectual History of India and Tibet, 1500-1800
Redaktion: Sheldon Pollock, Pollock

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Produktbeschreibung

In the past two decades, scholars have transformed our understanding of the interactions between India and the West since the consolidation of British power on the subcontinent around 1800. While acknowledging the merits of this scholarship, Sheldon Pollock argues that knowing how colonialism changed South Asian cultures, particularly how Western modes of thought became dominant, requires knowing what was there to be changed. Yet little is known about the history of knowledge and imagination in late precolonial South Asia, about what systematic forms of thought existed, how they worked, or who produced them. This pioneering collection of essays helps to rectify this situation by addressing the ways thinkers in India and Tibet responded to a rapidly changing world in the three centuries prior to 1800. Contributors examine new forms of communication and conceptions of power that developed across the subcontinent; changing modes of literary consciousness, practices, and institutions in north India; unprecedented engagements in comparative religion, autobiography, and ethnography in the Indo-Persian sphere; and new directions in disciplinarity, medicine, and geography in Tibet. Taken together, the essays in Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia inaugurate the exploration of a particularly complex intellectual terrain, while gesturing toward distinctive forms of non-Western modernity.Contributors. Muzaffar Alam, Imre Bangha, Aditya Behl, Allison Busch, Sumit Guha, Janet Gyatso, Matthew T. Kapstein, Francoise Mallison, Sheldon Pollock, Velcheru Narayana Rao, Kurtis R. Schaeffer, Sunil Sharma, David Shulman, Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 388
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822393580
• Artikelnr.: 54818514

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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