Framing Intellectual And Lived Spaces In Early South Asia

Author : Lucas den Boer,Elizabeth A. Cecil
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110557176

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Framing Intellectual and Lived Spaces in Early South Asia by Lucas den Boer,Elizabeth A. Cecil Pdf

The contributions to this book address a series of ‘confrontations’—debates between intellectual communities, the interplay of texts and images, and the intersection of monumental architecture and physical terrain—and explore the ways in which the legacy of these encounters, and the human responses to them, conditioned cultural production in early South Asia (c. 4th-7th centuries CE). Rather than an agonistic term, the book uses ‘confrontation’ as a heuristic to examine historical moments within this pivotal period in which individuals and communities were confronted with new ideas and material expressions. The first half of the volume addresses the intersections of textual, material, and visual forms of cultural production by focusing on three primary modes of confrontation: the relation of inscribed texts to material media, the visual articulation of literary images and, finally, the literary interpretation and reception of built landscapes. The second part of the volume focuses on confrontations both within and between intellectual communities. The articles address the dynamics between peripheral and dominant movements in the history of Indian philosophy.

Author : Lucas den Boer,Elizabeth Ann Cecil
Publisher : de Gruyter
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3110553163

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Confrontations in Context by Lucas den Boer,Elizabeth Ann Cecil Pdf

The contributions to this book address a series of 'confrontations'--debates between intellectual communities, the interplay of texts and images, and the intersection of monumental architecture and physical terrain--and explore the ways in which the legacy of these encounters, and the human responses to them, conditioned cultural production in early South Asia (c. 4th-7th centuries CE). Rather than an agonistic term, the book uses 'confrontation' as a heuristic to examine historical moments within this pivotal period in which individuals and communities were confronted with new ideas and material expressions. The first half of the volume addresses the intersections of textual, material, and visual forms of cultural production by focusing on three primary modes of confrontation: the relation of inscribed texts to material media, the visual articulation of literary images and, finally, the literary interpretation and reception of built landscapes. The second part of the volume focuses on confrontations both within and between intellectual communities. The articles address the dynamics between peripheral and dominant movements in the history of Indian philosophy.

Author : Lucas den Boer,Elizabeth A. Cecil
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110556452

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Framing Intellectual and Lived Spaces in Early South Asia by Lucas den Boer,Elizabeth A. Cecil Pdf

The contributions to this book address a series of ‘confrontations’—debates between intellectual communities, the interplay of texts and images, and the intersection of monumental architecture and physical terrain—and explore the ways in which the legacy of these encounters, and the human responses to them, conditioned cultural production in early South Asia (c. 4th-7th centuries CE). Rather than an agonistic term, the book uses ‘confrontation’ as a heuristic to examine historical moments within this pivotal period in which individuals and communities were confronted with new ideas and material expressions. The first half of the volume addresses the intersections of textual, material, and visual forms of cultural production by focusing on three primary modes of confrontation: the relation of inscribed texts to material media, the visual articulation of literary images and, finally, the literary interpretation and reception of built landscapes. The second part of the volume focuses on confrontations both within and between intellectual communities. The articles address the dynamics between peripheral and dominant movements in the history of Indian philosophy.

Author : Michael Willis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110498370

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Translation and State by Michael Willis Pdf

In 1587, Abū al-Faz̤l ibn Mubārak – a favourite at the Mughal court and author of the Akbarnāmah – completed his Preface to the Persian translation of the Mahābhārata. This book is the first detailed study of Abū al-Faz̤l's Preface. It offers insights into manuscript practices at the Mughal court, the role a Persian version of the Mahābhārata was meant to play, and the religious interactions that characterised 16th-century India.

Author : Brianne Donaldson,Ana Bajželj
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520380561

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Insistent Life by Brianne Donaldson,Ana Bajželj Pdf

"Insistent Life is the first full-length interdisciplinary treatment of the foundational principles and principles of application for engaging contemporary bioethics within the Jain tradition. The book fills a significant gap in both the fields of bioethics and Jain studies since Jainism, perhaps more so than any other South Asian tradition, is strongly focused on the ethics of birth, life, and death, with regard to humans as well as other living beings. Brianne Donaldson and Ana Bajželj analyze a diverse range of Jain texts and contemporary sources on Jain doctrines and practices, alongside bioethics, to identify Jain perspectives on bioethical issues while highlighting the complexity of their personal, professional, and public dimensions. The book also features extensive original data--represented in visual graphs--based on an international survey the authors conducted with Jain medical professionals in India and diaspora communities of North America, Europe, and Africa"--

Author : Federico Squarcini
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781843313977

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Boundaries, Dynamics and Construction of Traditions in South Asia by Federico Squarcini Pdf

‘Boundaries, Dynamics and Construction of Traditions in South Asia’ explores the dynamic constructions and applications of the concept of ‘tradition’ that occurred within the South Asian context during the ancient and pre-colonial periods. This collection of essays features a significant selection of the specialized fields of knowledge that have shaped classical South Asian intellectual history, and the aim of this volume is to offer a stimulating anthology of papers on the different and complex processes employed during the ‘invention’, construction, preservation and renewal of a given tradition.

Author : Marc Jason Gilbert
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199760343

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South Asia in World History by Marc Jason Gilbert Pdf

This book explores how world historical processes, from changes in environment to the movement of peoples and ideas, have shaped and continue to shape the history of South Asia and its place in the wider world.

Author : Shonaleeka Kaul
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000439748

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Retelling Time by Shonaleeka Kaul Pdf

Retelling Time challenges the hegemony of colonial modernity over academic disciplines and over ways in which we think about something as fundamental as time. It reclaims a bouquet of alternative practices of time from premodern South Asia, which stem from worldviews that have been marginalized. These practices relate to a range of classical and vernacular genres including alaṃkāra, theravāda, yoga, rāmakathā, tasawwuf, āyāraṃga, purāṇa, trikā-tantra, navya-nyāya, pratyabhijñā, carita, kūṭīyāṭṭam and maṅgala kāvya. These represent multiple languages such as Sanskrit, Persian, Pali, Prakrit, Awadhi, Malayalam, Kannada, and Bengali, as well as diverse streams, from Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, and Sufi Islam to logic, yoga, tantra, theatre, and poetics. Retelling Time questions the modern Eurocentric belief in an empty, homogenous, abbreviated, secular and irreversible time. It proposes instead that that premodern South Asia invested time with cultural function and value, which ranged from the contingent to the transcendent, the quotidian to the cosmic, the fleeting to the eternal, and the social to the spiritual. Accordingly, time was reworked --- stretched, melded, collapsed, recursed, rolled over, and even extinguished. Sacred, social, aesthetic, scientific, fictional, historical, and performative South Asian traditions are seen here in conversation with one other, mediated by an ethical paradigm. Their collective challenge is to decolonize our ways of knowing and being. This book will be of interest to scholars of South Asian history, philosophy of history, anthropology, literature, Sanskrit, post colonial studies, cultural studies, studies of temporality and of the Global South.

Author : Sugata Bose,Ayesha Jalal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134397143

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Modern South Asia by Sugata Bose,Ayesha Jalal Pdf

The South Asian subcontinent is home to nearly a billion people and has been the site of fierce historical contestation. It is a panoply of languages and religions with a rich and complex history and culture. Drawing on the newest and most sophisticated historical research and scholarship in the field, Modern South Asia is written in an accessible style for all those with an intellectual curiosity about the region. After sketching the pre-modern history of the subcontinent, the book concentrates on the last three centuries from c.1700 to the present. Jointly written by two leading Indian and Pakistani historians, it offers a rare depth of historical understanding of the politics, cultures and economies that shape the lives of more than a fifth of humanity. In this comprehensive study, the authors debate and challenge the striking developments in contemporary South Asian history and historical writing. The book provides new insights into the structure and ideology of the British raj, the meaning of subaltern resistance, the refashioning of social relations along lines of caste, class, community and gender, the different strands of anti-colonial nationalism and the dynamics of decolonization. This book is a work of synthesis and interpretation covering the entire spectrum of modern South Asian history - social, economic and political. The authors offer an understanding of this startegically and economically vital part of the world.

Author : Brannon Ingram,J. Barton Scott,SherAli K Tareen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317234296

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Imagining the Public in Modern South Asia by Brannon Ingram,J. Barton Scott,SherAli K Tareen Pdf

In South Asia, as elsewhere, the category of ‘the public’ has come under increased scholarly and popular scrutiny in recent years. To better understand this current conjuncture, we need a fuller understanding of the specifically South Asian history of the term. To that end, this book surveys the modern Indian ‘public’ across multiple historical contexts and sites, with contributions from leading scholars of South Asia in anthropology, history, literary studies and religious studies. As a whole, this volume highlights the complex genealogies of the public in the Indian subcontinent during the colonial and postcolonial eras, showing in particular how British notions of ‘the public’ intersected with South Asian forms of publicity. Two principal methods or approaches—the genealogical and the typological—have characterised this scholarship. This book suggests, more in the mode of genealogy, that the category of the public has been closely linked to the sub-continental history of political liberalism. Also discussed is how the studies collected in this volume challenge some of liberalism’s key presuppositions about the public and its relationship to law and religion.

Author : Francesca Orsini
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351888318

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The History of the Book in South Asia by Francesca Orsini Pdf

The History of the Book in South Asia covers not only the various modern states that make up South Asia today but also a multitude of languages and scripts. For centuries it was manuscripts that dominated book production and circulation, and printing technology only began to make an impact in the late eighteenth century. Print flourished in the colonial period and in particular lithographic printing proved particularly popular in South Asia both because it was economical and because it enabled multi-script printing. There are now vibrant publishing cultures in the nation states of South Asia, and the essays in this volume cover the whole range from palm-leaf manuscripts to contemporary print culture.

Author : Diane P. Mines,Sarah Lamb
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253354730

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Everyday Life in South Asia by Diane P. Mines,Sarah Lamb Pdf

An introduction to the peoples and cultures of South Asia

Author : Sugata Bose,Ayesha Jalal
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000713701

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Modern South Asia by Sugata Bose,Ayesha Jalal Pdf

The fifth edition of Modern South Asia draws on the newest historical research and scholarship in the field to interpret and debate key developments in modern South Asian history and historical writing, covering the diverse spectrum of the subcontinent’s social, economic and political past. Jointly authored by two leading Indian and Pakistani historians, this definitive study offers a rare depth of historical understanding of the politics, cultures and economies that have shaped the lives of more than a fifth of humanity. This new edition on the 75th anniversary of independence and partition brings the narrative up to the present day, discussing recent events and addressing new themes such as the capture of state power in India by the forces of religious majoritarianism, economic development in the context of the ‘rise’ of Asia and strategic shifts occasioned by the US withdrawal from Afghanistan and China’s increasing role in the region. Providing fresh insights into the structure and ideology of the British raj, the meaning of subaltern resistance, the refashioning of social relations along lines of caste, class, religion and gender, the different strands of anti-colonial nationalism and the dynamics of decolonization, this is an essential resource for all students of the modern history of South Asia in an Indian Ocean and global context.

Author : Elliot Tepper,Canadian Asian Studies Association. South Asia Council,John R. Wood,Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute
Publisher : Montréal : South Asia Council, Canadian Asian Studies Association
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : South Asia
ISBN : 0920296076

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Enriched by South Asia by Elliot Tepper,Canadian Asian Studies Association. South Asia Council,John R. Wood,Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute Pdf

Author : Sheldon Pollock,Arvind Raghunathan Professor of South Asian Studies Sheldon Pollock
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 1103 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2003-05-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520228214

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Literary Cultures in History by Sheldon Pollock,Arvind Raghunathan Professor of South Asian Studies Sheldon Pollock Pdf

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