Querying the medieval : texts and the history of practices in South Asia
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Querying the medieval : texts and the history of practices in South Asia
Oxford University Press, 2000
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Indologist Ronald Inden has in the past raised questions about the images of a "traditional" or "medieval" India deployed by colonial scholars and rulers-"Orientalists"-and has also argued that a history of "early medieval" India very different from both the colonial and nationalist accounts could be written. This volume is designed as an important first step towards that goal. The authors look closely at three genres of texts that have been crucial to the
representations of precolonial India. All three essays challenge not only colonialist scholarship but the attempts by religious nationalists to identify Hinduism as the essence of national identity in India and Buddhism as the essence of nationality in Sri Lanka.
Table of Contents
1: Ronald Inden: Introduction: From Philogical to Dialogical Texts
2: Ronald Inden: Imperial Pur=a.nas: Kashmir as Vais.s.nava Center of the Words
3: Jonathan S. Walters: Buddhist History: The Sri Lankan P=ala Va.msas and Their Community
4: Daud Ali: Royal Eulogy as World History: Rethinking Copper-plat Inscriptions in C=o(la India
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