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Forms of knowledge in early modern Asia : explorations in the intellectual history of India and Tibet, 1500-1800 / edited by Sheldon Pollock.

Contributor(s): Pollock, Sheldon I.
Publisher: Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, c2011Description: 376 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9780822349044 (pbk.); 9780822348825 (hbk.).Subject(s): 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 centuryDDC classification: 954.02
Contents:
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 RiÌ"ti tradition / Allison Busch -- Writing devotion : the dynamics of textual transmission in the KavitaÌ"valiÌ" of TulsiÌ"daÌ"s / Imre Bangha -- The teaching of Braj, Gujarati, and Bardic poetry at the court of Kutch : The Bhuj BrajbhaÌ"sÌ£aÌ" PaÌ"tÌ£hśaÌ"laÌ" (1749-1948 ) / Françoise Mallison -- The making of a MunshiÌ" / 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 JambudviÌ"pa are we? : new geographical knowledge and old cosmological schemes in eighteenth-century Tibet / Matthew T. Kapstein.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 RiÌ"ti tradition / Allison Busch -- Writing devotion : the dynamics of textual transmission in the KavitaÌ"valiÌ" of TulsiÌ"daÌ"s / Imre Bangha -- The teaching of Braj, Gujarati, and Bardic poetry at the court of Kutch : The Bhuj BrajbhaÌ"sÌ£aÌ" PaÌ"tÌ£hśaÌ"laÌ" (1749-1948 ) / Françoise Mallison -- The making of a MunshiÌ" / 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 JambudviÌ"pa are we? : new geographical knowledge and old cosmological schemes in eighteenth-century Tibet / Matthew T. Kapstein.