Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Notes on contributors; Preface and acknowledgments; Alternative Asian modernities: an introduction; Part I Transcultural Asian modernities; 1 European self-making and India's alternative modernities; 2 Circulatory and competitive histories; 3 Connected histories: the Asian roots of the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions; 4 Dominant and counter-imaginaries: analyzing India's modernities; Part II China and Southeast Asia; 5 A perspective on Confucian democracy in Cultural China
6 Chinese maritime economy: historical globalizing forces7 Southeast Asia in the fifteenth century: early modern or what?; Part III India; 8 Alternative modernities: the Odia Lakshmi Purana as radical pedagogy; 9 Vernacular modernity and the public sphere of bhakti; 10 Before the great divergence: the early modern South Asian agrarian economy in a global perspective; 11 Revisiting the early modern merchant: caste, power and the politics of transition; 12 Modernity as renewal mechanism: alternative(s) to modernity in India; Index
