Forms of knowledge in early modern Asia: explorations in the intellectual history of India and Tibet, 1500 - 1800

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...

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Contributors: Pollock, Sheldon I. 1948- (Editor)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Durham London Duke University Press 2011
In:Year: 2011
Reviews:[Rezension von: Pollock, Sheldon, Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia: Explorations in the Intellectual History of India and Tibet, 1500–1800] (2013) (Gandhi, Supriya)
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B India / Tibet / History of ideas 1500-1800
Further subjects:B Tibet Autonomous Region (China) Civilization 18th century
B Collection of essays
B India Civilization 16th century
B India Civilization 17th century
B Tibet (China) Civilization 18th century
B India Civilization 17th century
B Tibet (China) Civilization 17th century
B India Civilization 16th century
B India Civilization 18th century
B Tibet Autonomous Region (China) Civilization 17th century
B India Civilization 18th century
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Summary: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
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:0822349043