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Pollock Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia
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Explorations in the Intellectual History of India and Tibet, 1500-1800
E-Book, Englisch, 388 Seiten
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9358-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
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.
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
- Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Hinduismus
Weitere Infos & Material
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction / Sheldon Pollock 1
Part I. Communication, Knowledge, and Power
1. The Languages of Science in Early Modern India / Sheldon Pollock 19
2. Bad Language and Good Language: Lexical Awareness in the Cultural Politics of Peninsular India, ca. 1300–1800 / Sumit Guha 49
3. A New Imperial Idiom in the Sixteenth Century: Krishnadevaraya and His Political Theory of Vijayanagara / Velcheru Narayana Rao, David Shulman, and Sanjay Subrahmanyam 69
Part II. Literary Consciousness, Practices, and Institutions in North India
4. The Anxiety of Innovation: The Practice of Literary Science in the Hindi Riti Tradition / Allison Busch 115
5. Writing Devotion: The Dynamics of Textual Transmission n the Kavitavali of Tulsidas / Imre Bangha 140
6. The Teaching of Braj, Gujarati, and Bardi Poetry at the Court of Kutch: The Bhuj Brajbhasa Pathsala (1749–1948) / Françoise Mallison 171
Part III. Inside the World of Indo-Persian Thought
7. The Making of a Munshi / Muzaffar Alam and Sanjay Subrahmanyam 185
8. Pages from the Book of Religions: Encountering Difference in Mughal India / Aditya Behl 210
9. "If There Is a Paradise on Earth, It Is Here": Urban Ethnography in Indo-Persian Poetic and Historical Texts / Sunil Sharma 240
10. Early Persianate Modernity / Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi 257
Part IV. Early Modernities of Tibetan Knowledge
11. New Scholarship in Tibet, 1650–1700 / Kurtis R. Schaeffer 291
12. Experience, Empiricism, and the Fortunes of Authority: Tibetan Medicine and Buddhism on the Eve of Modernity / Janet Gyatso 311
13. Just Where on Jambudvipa Are We? New Geographical Knowledge and Old Cosmological Schemes in Eighteenth-century Tibet / Matthew T. Kapstein 336
Contributors 365
Index 369