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100 _aPollock, Sheldon. (ed.)
245 0 _aForms of knowledge in early modern Asia: explorations in the intellectual history of India and Tibet, 1500-1880
260 _aNew Delhi
_bManohar
_c2011
300 _a376p.
365 _b9000
365 _dRS
520 _aThis 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.
650 _aSociology of knowledge
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