Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia: Explorations in the Intellectual History of India & Tibet, 1500–1800 Book

Contents

Acknowledgments....................ix
Introduction Sheldon Pollock....................1
1. The Languages of Science in Early Modern India Sheldon Pollock....................19
2. Bad Language and Good Language: Lexical Awareness in the Cultural Politics of Peninsular India, ca. 1300–1800 Sumit Guha....................49
3. A New Imperial Idiom in the Sixteenth Century: Krishnadevaraya and His Political Theory of Vijayanagara Velcheru Narayana Rao, David Shulman, and Sanjay Subrahmanyam....................69
4. The Anxiety of Innovation: The Practice of Literary Science in the Hindi Riti Tradition Allison Busch....................115
5. Writing Devotion: The Dynamics of Textual Transmission in the Kavitavali of Tulsidas Imre Bangha....................140
6. The Teaching of Braj, Gujarati, and Bardic Poetry at the Court of Kutch: The Bhuj Brajbhasa Pathsala (1749–1948) Françoise Mallison....................171
7. The Making of a Munshi Muzaffar Alam and Sanjay Subrahmanyam....................185
8. Pages from the Book of Religions: Encountering Difference in Mughal India Aditya Behl....................210
9. "If There Is a Paradise on Earth, It Is Here": Urban Ethnography in Indo-Persian Poetic and Historical Texts Sunil Sharma....................240
10. Early Persianate Modernity Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi....................257
11. New Scholarship in Tibet, 1650–1700 Kurtis R. Schaeffer....................291
12. Experience, Empiricism, and the Fortunes of Authority: Tibetan Medicine and Buddhism on the Eve of Modernity Janet Gyatso....................311
13. Just Where on Jambudvipa Are We? New Geographical Knowledge and Old Cosmological Schemes in Eighteenth-century Tibet Matthew T. Kapstein....................336
Contributors....................365
Index....................369