: explorations in the intellectual history of India and Tibet, 1500-1800
First Statement of Responsibility
/ edited by Sheldon Pollock.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Durham [NC]
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
: Duke University Press
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
, 2011.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
376 p.
Other Physical Details
: ill., map
Dimensions
; 25 cm.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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 Rīti tradition / Allison Busch -- Writing devotion : the dynamics of textual transmission in the Kavitāvalī of Tulsīdās / Imre Bangha -- The teaching of Braj, Gujarati, and Bardic poetry at the court of Kutch : The Bhuj Brajbhāṣā Pāṭhśālā (1749-1948 ) / Françoise Mallison -- The making of a Munshī / 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 Jambudvīpa are we? : new geographical knowledge and old cosmological schemes in eighteenth-century Tibet / Matthew T. Kapstein.
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GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
India, Civilization, 16th century.
India, Civilization, 17th century.
India, Civilization, 18th century.
Tibet Autonomous Region (China), Civilization, 17th century.
Tibet Autonomous Region (China), Civilization, 18th century.