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Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia: Explorations in the Intellectual History of India and Tibet, –
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Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia
Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia Explorations in the Intellectual History of India and Tibet, –
Edited by
Sheldon Pollock
Duke University Press · Durham and London ·
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In memory of our dear friend and colleague, Aditya Behl (–)
Contents
Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Sheldon Pollock Part I. Communication, Knowledge, and Power 1. The Languages of Science in Early Modern India 19 Sheldon Pollock 2. Bad Language and Good Language: Lexical Awareness in the Cultural Politics of Peninsular India, ca. – 49 Sumit Guha 3. A New Imperial Idiom in the Sixteenth Century: Krishnadevaraya and His Political Theory of Vijayanagara 69 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 Rīti Tradi
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