Review (PDF) Forms Of Knowledge In Early Modern Asia: Explorations In The Intellectual History Of India And Tibet, 1500-1800
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, Françoise Mallison, Sheldon Pollock, Velcheru Narayana Rao, Kurtis R. Schaeffer, Sunil Sharma, David Shulman, Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi
File Size: 2178 KB
Print Length: 389 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0822349043
Publisher: Duke University Press Books (February 21, 2011)
Publication Date: February 21, 2011
Sold by: Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B00EHNTR0K
Text-to-Speech: Enabled
X-Ray: Not Enabled
Word Wise: Not Enabled
Lending: Not Enabled
Enhanced Typesetting: Not Enabled
Best Sellers Rank: #976,694 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store) #75 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > History > Religion > Hinduism #126 in Books > Religion & Spirituality > Hinduism > History #288 in Books > History > World > Religious > Hinduism
Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia: Explorations in the Intellectual History of India and Tibet, 1500-1800 Meltdown in Tibet: China's Reckless Destruction of Ecosystems from the Highlands of Tibet to the Deltas of Asia Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean, The Barbary Coast, and Italy, 1500-1800 (Early Modern History Society and Culture) The Culture of Translation in Early Modern England and France, 1500-1660 (Early Modern Literature in History) The Danish Revolution, 1500-1800: An Ecohistorical Interpretation (Studies in Environment and History) The British Atlantic World 1500-1800 (Problems in Focus) Asia's Unknown Uprisings Volume 2: People Power in the Philippines, Burma, Tibet, China, Taiwan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Thailand and Indonesia 1947-2009 Standard Catalog of World Coins 1701-1800 (Standard Catalog of World Coins Eighteenth Century, 1701-1800) History of Modern Latin America: 1800 to the Present (Wiley Blackwell Concise History of the Modern World) Writing the Ottomans: Turkish History in Early Modern England (Early Modern Literature in History) Caste, Society and Politics in India from the Eighteenth Century to the Modern Age (The New Cambridge History of India) Organising Knowledge: Taxonomies, Knowledge and Organisational Effectiveness (Chandos Knowledge Management) 1500 General Knowledge Quiz Questions and Answers Intellectual Property in the New Technology Age: 2016: Vol. I Perspectives, Trade Secrets and Patents (Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age) Intellectual Property: Supreme Court Contemporary Decisions (Intellectual Property Law Series) Jewish Poet and Intellectual in Seventeenth-Century Venice: The Works of Sarra Copia Sulam in Verse and Prose Along with Writings of Her ... (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe) A History of the Sikhs: Volume 2: 1839-2004 (Oxford India Collection) (Oxford India Collection (Paperback)) Capitalist Development and Economism in East Asia: The Rise of Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea (Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia) Islam Translated: Literature, Conversion, and the Arabic Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia (South Asia Across the Disciplines) Residential Inspector's Guide to Codes, Forms, & Complaints (Residential Inspector's Guide to Codes, Forms, and Complaints)
