Forms of knowledge in early modern Asia
Subtitle: explorations in the intellectual history of India and Tibet, 1500-1800
By: edited by Sheldon Pollock
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Durham [NC]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780822348825; 9780822349044
Subjects: Civilization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The languages of science in early modern India / Sheldon Pollock; title: Bad language and good language : lexical awareness in the cultural politics of peninsular India, ca. 1300-800 / Sumit Guha; title: A new imperial idiom in the sixteenth century : Krishnadevaraya and his political theory of Vijayanagara /  Velcheru Narayana Rao, David Shulman, and Sanjay Subrahmanyam; title: The anxiety of innovation : the practice of literary science in the Hindi Rīti tradition / Allison Busch; title: Writing devotion : the dynamics of textual transmission in the Kavitāvalī of Tulsīdās / Imre Bangha; title: The teaching of Braj, Gujarati, and Bardic poetry at the court of Kutch : The Bhuj Brajbhāṣā Pāṭhśālā (1749-1948 ) / Françoise Mallison; title: The making of a Munshī / Muzaffar Alam and Sanjay Subrahmanyam; title: Pages from the Book of religions : encountering difference in Mughal India / Aditya Behl; title: "If there is a Paradise on Earth, it is here" : urban ethnography in Indo-Persian poetic and historical texts / Sunil Sharma; title: Early Persianate modernity / Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi; title: New scholarship in Tibet, 1650-1700 /  Kurtis R. Schaeffer; title: Experience, empiricism, and the fortunes of authority : Tibetan medicine and Buddhism on the eve of modernity / Janet Gyatso; title: Just where on Jambudvīpa are we? : new geographical knowledge and old cosmological schemes in eighteenth-century Tibet /  Matthew T. Kapstein.