Forms of knowledge in early modern Asia : explorations in the intellectual history of India and Tibet, 1500-1800

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Forms of knowledge in early modern Asia : explorations in the intellectual history of India and Tibet, 1500-1800

edited by Sheldon Pollock

Manohar Publishers & Distributors, 2011

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Includes bibliographical references and index

"Published in 2011 in India by arranegement with and permission of Duke University Press"--t.p.verso

Contents of Works

  • 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

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