Contents:
Part I: Communication, knowledge, and power;
1. The language of science in early modern India by Sheldon Pollock;
2. Bad language and good language: Lexical awareness in the cultural politics of peninsular India, ca.1300-1800 by Sumit Guha;
3. A new imperial idiom in the sixteenth century: Krishnadevaraya and his political theory of Vijayanagara by Velcheru Narayana Rao, David Shulman, and Sanjay Subrahmanyam;

Part II. Literary consciousness, practices, and Institutions in North India
4. The anxiety of innovation: The practice of literary science in the Hindi Riti tradition by Akkusib Busch;
5. Writing devotion: The dynamics of texual transmission in Kavitavali of Tulsidas by Imre Bangha;
6. The teaching of braj, Gujarati, and Bardic poetry at the Court of Kutch: The Bhuj Brajbhasa Pathsala (1749-1948) by Francois Mallison;

Part III. Inside the world of Indo-persion through
7. The making of a Mushi by Muzaffar Alam and Sanjay Subrahmanyam;
8. Pages from the book of religions: Encountering difference in Mughal India by Aditya Behl;
9. If there is a paradise on earth, it is here: Urban ethnography in Indo-Persion poeticand historical texts by Sunil Sharma;
10. Early periantatemodernity by Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi;

Part IV. Early modernities of Tibetan knowledge;
11. New scholarship in Tibet, 1650-1700 by KurtisR. Schaeffer;
12. Experience, empiricism, and the fortunes of authority: Tibetan medicine and Buddhism on the eve of modernity by Janet Gyatso;
13. Just where on Jumbudvipa are we? New geographical knowledge and old cosmological schemes in eighteenth century Tibet by Matthew T. Kapstein.