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100			_aPollock Sheldon
245			_aForms of knowledge in early modern Asia : Explorations in the intellectual history of India and Tibet, 1500 - 1800
260			_aNew Delhi _bManohar Publications _c2011
300			_a376p _cix
365			_b Rs. 1,150
505			_aContents: 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.
650			_a1. Civilization - 16th - 17th - 18th Century2. Tibet Autonomous Region - China
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