Title Forms of knowledge in early modern Asia : explorations in the intellectual history of India and Tibet, 1500-1800 / edited by Sheldon Pollock

Published Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (376 pages) : illustrations, map Contents The languages of science in early modern India / Sheldon Pollock -- Bad language and good language : lexical awareness in the cultural politics of peninsular India, ca. 1300-800 / Sumit Guha -- A new imperial idiom in the sixteenth century : Krishnadevaraya and his political theory of Vijayanagara / Velcheru Narayana Rao, David Shulman, and Sanjay Subrahmanyam -- The anxiety of innovation : the practice of literary science in the Hindi Rīti tradition / Allison Busch -- Writing devotion : the dynamics of textual transmission in the Kavitāvalī of Tulsīdās / Imre Bangha -- The teaching of Braj, Gujarati, and Bardic poetry at the court of Kutch : The Bhuj Brajbhāṣā Pāṭhśālā (1749-1948) / Françoise Mallison -- The making of a Munshī / Muzaffar Alam and Sanjay Subrahmanyam -- Pages from the Book of religions : encountering difference in Mughal India / Aditya Behl -- "If there is a Paradise on Earth, it is here" : urban ethnography in Indo-Persian poetic and historical texts / Sunil Sharma -- Early Persianate modernity / Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi -- New scholarship in Tibet, 1650-1700 / Kurtis R. Schaeffer -- Experience, empiricism, and the fortunes of authority : Tibetan medicine and Buddhism on the eve of modernity / Janet Gyatso -- Just where on Jambudvīpa are we? : new geographical knowledge and old cosmological schemes in eighteenth-century Tibet / Matthew T. Kapstein Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia. HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia Civilization SUBJECT India -- Civilization -- 16th century India -- Civilization -- 17th century India -- Civilization -- 18th century Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Civilization -- 17th century Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Civilization -- 18th century Subject China -- Tibet Autonomous Region India Tibet Indien Indien -- kultur- och samhällsliv -- 1500-talet -- 1600-talet -- 1700-talet. Tibet -- kultur- och samhällsliv -- 1500-talet -- 1600-talet -- 1700-talet. Form Electronic book Author Pollock, Sheldon I. LC no. 2010035886 ISBN 9780822393580 0822393581 1283252082 9781283252089 9786613252081 6613252085

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