Pollock Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia

Explorations in the Intellectual History of India and Tibet, 1500-1800
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9358-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 388 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pollock, Sheldon

Weitere Mitwirkende

Guha, Sumit

Rao, Velcheru Narayana

Shulman, David

Subrahmanyam, Sunjay

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Hinduismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Sheldon Pollock is the William B. Ransford Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Studies in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. He is the author of The Language of the Gods in the World of Men: Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in Premodern India; the editor of a number of books, including Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia; and a co-editor of Cosmopolitanism, also published by Duke University Press.