Forms of knowledge in early modern Asia : explorations in the intellectual history of India and Tibet, 1500-1800
by
Pollock, Sheldon I., editor.
Title
:
Forms of knowledge in early modern Asia : explorations in the intellectual history of India and Tibet, 1500-1800
Author
:
Pollock, Sheldon I., editor.
ISBN
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9780822348825
9780822349044
Physical Description
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376 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
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.
Geographic Term
:
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.
Added Author
:
Pollock, Sheldon I.,
Bibliographical References
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Field 805
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npmlib 10900713 DS423 F67 ysh
Library | Shelf Number | Item Barcode | Copy | Material Type | Status |
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NPM Library | DS423 F67 2011 | 10900713 | 1 | B | *二館西文書一區 |