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

Title
Forms of knowledge in early modern Asia : explorations in the intellectual history of India and Tibet, 1500-1800 / edited by Sheldon Pollock.
Publication
Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2011.

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Pollock, Sheldon I.
Description
376 p. : ill., map; 25 cm.
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
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 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.
Call Number
JFE 11-1298
ISBN
  • 9780822348825 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0822348829 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780822349044 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0822349043 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2010035886
OCLC
YBP 2010035886
Title
Forms of knowledge in early modern Asia : explorations in the intellectual history of India and Tibet, 1500-1800 / edited by Sheldon Pollock.
Imprint
Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2011.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Pollock, Sheldon I.
Research Call Number
JFE 11-1298
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