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In the past two decades, scholars have transformed our understanding of the interactions between India and the West since the consolidation of British power on the subcontinent around 1800. While acknowledging the merits of this scholarship, Sheldon Pollock argues that knowing how colonialism changed South Asian cultures, particularly how Western modes of thought became dominant, requires knowing what was there to be changed. Yet little is known about the history of knowledge and imagination in late precolonial South Asia, about what systematic forms of thought existed, how they worked, or who produced them. This pioneering collection of essays helps to rectify this situation by addressing the ways thinkers in India and Tibet responded to a rapidly changing world in the three centuries prior to 1800. Contributors examine new forms of communication and conceptions of power that developed across the subcontinent; changing modes of literary consciousness, practices, and institutions in north India; unprecedented engagements in comparative religion, autobiography, and ethnography in the Indo-Persian sphere; and new directions in disciplinarity, medicine, and geography in Tibet. Taken together, the essays in Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia inaugurate the exploration of a particularly complex intellectual terrain, while gesturing toward distinctive forms of non-Western modernity.Contributors. Muzaffar Alam, Imre Bangha, Aditya Behl, Allison Busch, Sumit Guha, Janet Gyatso, Matthew T. Kapstein, Francoise Mallison, Sheldon Pollock, Velcheru Narayana Rao, Kurtis R. Schaeffer, Sunil Sharma, David Shulman, Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi

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Publié par	Duke University Press
Date de parution	14 mars 2011
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780822393580
Langue	English
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Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia

Explorations in the Intellectual History of India and Tibet, 1500–1800

Edited bySheldon Pollock

Duke University Press ∙Durham and London∙ 2011

© 2011 Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper ♾ Typeset in Arno by Tseng Information Systems Inc ibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book

In memory of our dear friend and colleague, Aditya Behl (1966–2009)

Contents

Acknowledgments i

Introduction 1 Sheldon Pollock

Part I Communication Knowledge and Power 1 e anguages of Science in Éarly Modern India 1 Sheldon Pollock 2 Bad anguage and Good anguage: eical Awareness in the Cultural Politics of Peninsular India ca 1300–100 4 Sumit Guha 3 A New Imperial Idiom in the Siteenth Century: Krishnadevaraya and is Political eory of Vijayanagara  Velcheru Narayana Rao, David Shulman, and Sanjay Subrahmanyam

Part II iterary Consciousness Practices and Institutions in North India 4 e Aniety of Innovation: e Practice of iterary Science in the indiRītiTradition 11 Allison Busch  Writing Devotion: e Dynamics of Tetual Transmission in theKavitāvalīof Tulsdās 140 Imre Bangha  e Teaching of Braj Gujarati and Bardic Poetry at the Court of Kutch: e Bhuj Brajbhāṣā Pāṭhśālā (14–14) 11 Françoise Mallison

Part III Inside the World of Indo-Persian ought  e Making of aMunshī1 Muzaar Alam and Sanjay Subrahmanyam  Pages from the Book of Religions: Éncountering DiFerence in Mughal India 210 Aditya Behl  “If ere Is a Paradise on Éarth It Is ere”: Urban Éthnography in Indo-Persian Poetic and istorical Tets 240 Sunil Sharma 10 Éarly Persianate Modernity 2 Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi

Part IV Éarly Modernities of Tibetan Knowledge 11 New Scholarship in Tibet 10–100 21 Kurtis R. Schaeer 12 Éperience Émpiricism and the ortunes of Authority: Tibetan Medicine and Buddhism on the Éve of Modernity 311 Janet Gyatso 13 Just Where on Jambudvpa Are We? New Geographical Knowledge and Old Cosmological Schemes in Éighteenth-century Tibet 33 Matthew T. Kapstein

Contributors 3 Inde 3

Acknowledgments

A number of the papers in this collection were rst presented at the seminar orms of Knowledge in Éarly Modern South Asia organiZed at the Univer-sity of Chicago in the academic year 2002–3 I gratefully acknowledge the sup-port of the Committee on Southern Asian Studies without which the seminar could not have taken place Valerie Millholland our editor at Duke University Press has been epert in her guidance and gracious in her patience Tim Élfenbein did a remarkable job managing the comple editing and production of the volume and I am truly grateful to him e inde was prepared with great care and eciency by Katherine Ulrich ree anonymous reviewers generously oFered criticisms and suggestions for improvement I wish to thank Arthur Dudney Élaine isher Andrew Ollett and Audrey Truschke my research assistants at Columbia for their help in preparing the volume for the press

Éarlier versions of the essays of MuZaFar Alam and Sanjay Subrahmanyam Imre Bangha Allison Busch Sumit Guha Janet Gyatso and Sunil Sharma were published inComparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East24 no 2 (2004) A longer version of Aditya Behl’s essay was published inNotes from a Mandala: Essays in Honor of Wendy Doniger edited by David aberman and aurie Patton (Newark: University of Delaware Press 2010) An earlier version of Sheldon Pollock’s essay was published inContributions to Indian and Cross-Cultural Studies: Volume in Commemoration of Wilhelm Halbfass edited by Karin PreisendanZ (Vienna: Akademie der Wissenschaften 200) An ab-breviated version of the essay by V Narayana Rao David Shulman and Sanjay Subrahmanyam was published inSouth-Indian Horizons:Felicitation Volume for François Gros edited by Jean-uc Chevillard (Pondicherry: Institut franÇais de Pondichéry Ècole franÇaise d’etrême-orient 2004) Individual authors’ preferences in diacritics and styles of transliteration have been respected in the book

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