Forms of knowledge in early modern Asia: explorations in the intellectual history of India and Tibet, 1500-1880

By:

Pollock, Sheldon. (ed.)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi Manohar 2011Description: 376pISBN:

9788173049170

Subject(s):

Sociology of knowledge

DDC classification:

306.420954 FOR

Summary: 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 literacy consciousness, practices, and institutions in north India, unprecedented engagements in comparative religion, autobiography and ethnography in the Indo-Persian sphere; and new direction in disciplinarity, medicine and geography in Tibet.

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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 literacy consciousness, practices, and institutions in north India, unprecedented engagements in comparative religion, autobiography and ethnography in the Indo-Persian sphere; and new direction in disciplinarity, medicine and geography in Tibet.

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