Kingdoms of memory, empires of ink : the Veda and the regional print cultures of colonial India / Cezary Galewicz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Galewicz, Cezary, author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vedas--Publication and distribution.

Vedas.

Publishers and publishing--India--History--19th century.

Publishers and publishing.

History.

India.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

polychrome

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Kraków : Jagiellonian University Press, 2020.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Cover

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

I. Objects, spaces and practices

I.1. The book as an object circulating in space

I.2. The rebel book of the Veda

II. The Veda before print

II.1. The beginnings: the travelling Veda

II.2. The living libraries: the memorized Veda

II.3. Performance and spectacle: the ritual Veda

II.4. Scribes and scripture: the handwritten Veda

II.5. The Veda commented upon

II.6. The Veda in the empire of writing

III. The coming of print to Indian subcontinent

III.1. The missionary, the government and the commercialprinters

III.2. Preachers, printers and pundits

III.3. The Empire in print and the ethnographic state

III.4. Indian commercial printing after 1835(new beginnings)

IV. The Printed Veda

IV.1. The lost and the imagined Veda

IV.2. The recovered and the philological Veda

IV.3. The imperial Veda

IV.4. The printed Veda for paṇḍitas and pundits

IV.5. The Veda printed by Indians in India

V. Towards social history of print culturesin colonial India

V.1. Printing revolution and social change

V.2. Publishing Indian religions in print

V.3. Regional print cultures and the Veda

V.4. Towards a new understanding of reading cultures

Abbreviations

References

APPENDIX.

General index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9788323397694

8323397694

Publisher Number:

99988373218

EB00799386 Recorded Books

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