Pollock, Sheldon I. (Editor)
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.
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Review Emily Rook-Koepsel (2011) Review of "Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia: Explorations in the Intellectual History of India and Tibet, 1500--1800". Journal of Early Modern History (pp. 567-569).
Review Stewart, Tony K. (2012) Review of "Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia: Explorations in the Intellectual History of India and Tibet, 1500--1800". Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient (pp. 853-856).
Chapter Pollock, Sheldon (2011) The Languages of Science in Early Modern India. In: Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia: Explorations in the Intellectual History of India and Tibet, 1500--1800 (p. 19).
Chapter Guha, Sumit (2011) Bad Language and Good Language: Lexical Awareness in the Cultural Politics of Peninsular India, ca. 1300--1800. In: Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia: Explorations in the Intellectual History of India and Tibet, 1500--1800 (p. 49).
Chapter Shulman, David; Subrahmanyam, Sanjay (2011) A New Imperial Idiom in the Sixteenth Century: Krishnadevaraya and His Political Theory of Vijayanagara. In: Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia: Explorations in the Intellectual History of India and Tibet, 1500--1800 (p. 69).
Chapter Tavakoli-Targhi, Mohamad (2011) Early Persianate Modernity. In: Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia: Explorations in the Intellectual History of India and Tibet, 1500--1800 (p. 257).
Chapter Schaeffer, Kurtis R. (2011) New Scholarship in Tibet, 1650--1700. In: Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia: Explorations in the Intellectual History of India and Tibet, 1500--1800 (pp. 291-310).
Chapter Gyatso, Janet (2011) Experience, Empiricism, and the Fortunes of Authority: Tibetan Medicine and Buddhism on the Eve of Modernity. In: Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia: Explorations in the Intellectual History of India and Tibet, 1500--1800 (p. 311).
Chapter Kapstein, Matthew T. (2011) Just Where on Jambudvipa Are We? New Geographical Knowledge and Old Cosmological Schemes in Eighteenth-Century Tibet. In: Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia: Explorations in the Intellectual History of India and Tibet, 1500--1800 (p. 336).
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