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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.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- India--Civilization--16th century.
- India.
- India--Civilization--17th century.
- India--Civilization--18th century.
- Tibet Autonomous Region (China)--Civilization--17th century.
- Tibet Autonomous Region (China).
- Tibet Autonomous Region (China)--Civilization--18th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (389 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Essays illuminate the extraordinarily varied and dynamic intellectual developments underway in India and Tibet during the three centuries prior to the consolidation of British imperial power in 1800.
- 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 Riti tradition / Allison Busch
- Writing devotion : the dynamics of textual transmission in the Kavitavali of Tulsidas / Imre Bangha
- The teaching of Braj, Gujarati, and Bardic poetry at the court of Kutch : The Bhuj Brajbhasa Pathsala (1749-1948 ) / Francoise Mallison
- The making of a Munshi / 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 Jambudvipa are we? : new geographical knowledge and old cosmological schemes in eighteenth-century Tibet / Matthew T. Kapstein.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-25208-2
- 9786613252081
- 0-8223-9358-1
- OCLC:
- 712777377
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