Objects of translation : material culture and medieval "Hindu-Muslim" encounter / Finbarr B. Flood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flood, Finbarr Barry, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Material culture--South Asia--History.

Material culture.

Cultural geography--South Asia--History.

Cultural geography.

South Asia--Ethnic relations--History.

South Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 366 p. ) ill., maps, plans ;

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2009]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'Objects of Translation' offers a nuanced approach to the entanglements of medieval elites in the regions that today comprise Afghanistan, Pakistan, and north India.

Contents:

Roots or Routes?

Networks, Translation, and Transculturation

Things and Texts

Polyglot Frontiers and Permeable Boundaries

Gifts, Idolatry, and the Political Economy

Heteropraxy, Taxonomy, and Traveling Orthography

Cultural Cross-dressing

Prestigious Imitation

Fractal Kingship and Royal Castoffs

The Raja's Finger and the Sultan's Belt

Accommodating the Infidel

Sunni Internationalism and the Ghurid Interlude

From King of the Mountains to the Second Alexander

Homology, Ambiguity, and the Rule of Sri Hammira

Looking at Loot

Signs of Sovereignty

Looting and Difference

Trophies and Transculturation

Remaking Monuments

Taxonomies, Anomalies, and Visual Pidgin

Rupture and Reinscription

Noble Chambers and Translated Stones

Patrons and Masons

Markets, Mobility, and Intentional Hybridity

Palimpsest Pasts and Fictive Genealogies

A World within a World

Monuments and Memory

The Fate of Hammira

Conclusion : In and Out of Place

Appendix : Principal Dynasties and Rulers Mentioned.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages [311]-352) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781400833245

1400833248