Ideas and society
Subtitle: India between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries
By: Eugenia Vanina.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Oxford U.P.(India)
Published: 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
Description: This updated edition of Vanina's 1998 analysis of society and ideas in India between the 16th and 18th centuries deals with the reaction of medieval Indian thinkers to the culture and presence of the West. Vanina examines this field from a global perspective, providing an overview of the intellectual and social climate of the Mughal period.
Notes: First published as Ideas and society in India from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, 1996.