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Indian literature and the world : multilingualism, translation, and the publi…
Moves beyond restrictive Anglocentric approaches Features contributions from a spectrum of academics, from early career researchers to key names in the fieldAddresses areas such as translation studies as well as postcolonial studies and world literature
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- 9781137545497
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- 288 p.; 23 cm.
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- 891.4
Critical studies in Indian grammarians I : the theory of homogeneity (Savarnya)
In the historical study of the Indian grammarian tradition, a line of demarcation can often be drawn between the conformity of a system with the well-known grammar of Pa?ini and the explanatory effectiveness of that system. One element of Pa?ini’s grammar that scholars have sometimes struggled to bring across this line of demarcation is the theory of homogeneity, or savar?ya, which concerns t…
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- 9780472901708
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- XIII, 224 p.
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- Michigan Series In South And Southeast Asian Languages And Linguistics
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- 491.4 DES c
Ambivalent encounters : childhood, tourism, and social change in Banaras, India
Jenny Huberman provides an ethnographic study of encounters between western tourists and the children who work as unlicensed peddlers and guides along the riverfront city of Banaras, India. She examines how and why these children elicit such powerful reactions from western tourists and locals in their community as well as how the children themselves experience their work and render it meaningfu…
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- 9780813554082
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- Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies,
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- 331.318 HUB a
Translating wisdom : Hindu-Muslim intellectual interactions in early modern S…
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. During the height of Muslim power in Mughal South Asia, Hindu and Muslim scholars worked collaboratively to translate a large body of Hindu Sanskrit texts into the Persian language. Translating Wisdom reconstructs the intellectual processes and exchanges that underlay these translations. Using as a case …
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- 9780520975750
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- XVI, 260 p.
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- 294.51570954 NAI t
Embodying the Vedas : traditional Vedic schools of contemporary Maharashtra
Popularly Hinduism is believed to be the world’s oldest living religion. This claim is based on a continuous reverence to the oldest strata of religious authority within the Hindu traditions, the Vedic corpus, which began to be composed more than three thousand years ago, around 1750–1200 BCE. The Vedas have been considered by many as the philosophical cornerstone of the Brahmanical traditi…
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- 9783110517323
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- XVI, 272 p.
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- 294.5921071 LAR e
State of the young child in India
This Report is one of the first comprehensive studies on young children in India. It focuses on children under 6 years of age and presents key aspects of their well-being and development. It introduces two young child indices aggregating selected indicators to separately track child outcomes and child circumstances and provides an account of the current situation of the young child in terms of …
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- 9781003026488
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- 332 p.; 22 cm.
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- 305.230954 STA s
Genealogy, archive, image : interpreting dynastic history in western India, c…
The ethnographic approach to Indian history and genealogy; the making of dynastic history in the kingdom of Jhalavad; the history of Gujarat. ‘Genealogy, Archive, Image’ addresses the ways in which history and tradition are ‘reinvented’ through text, memory and painting. It examines the making of dynastic history in the kingdom of Jhalavad, situated in Gujarat, western India, over th…
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- 9783110539455
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- XVI, 278 p.
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- 954.75 JHA, g
Dividing texts : conventions of visual text-organization in Nepalese and Nort…
The number of manuscripts produced in the Indian sub-continent is astounding and is the result of a massive enterprise that was carried out over a vast geographical area and over a vast stretch of time. Focusing mainly on areas of Northern India and Nepal between 800 to 1300 CE and on manuscripts containing Sanskrit texts, the present study investigates a fundamental and so far rarely studied a…
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- 9783110543087
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- XII, 376 p.
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- Studies in Manuscript Cultures, 10
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- 091.0954960902 BHA d
Writing self, writing empire : Chandar Bhan Brahman and the cultural world of…
"Writing Self, Writing Empire examines the life, career, and writings of the Mughal state secretary, or munshi, Chandar Bhan Brahman (d. ca. 1670), one of the great Indo-Persian poets and prose stylists of early modern South Asia. Chandar Bhan’s life spanned the reigns of four emperors: Akbar (1556–1605), Jahangir (1605–1627), Shah Jahan (1628–1658), and Aurangzeb ‘Alamgir (1658–170…
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- 9780520961685
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- XIX, 371 p.
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- South Asia Across the Disciplines,
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- 891.5512 KIN w
Indic manuscript cultures through the ages. material, textual, and historical…
This collection of essays explores the history of the book in pre-modern South Asia looking at the production, circulation, fruition and preservation of manuscripts in different areas and across time. Edited by the team of the Cambridge-based Sanskrit Manuscripts Project and including contributions of the researchers who collaborated with it, it covers a wide range of topics related to South As…
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- 9783110543100
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- xviii, 783 p.; 22 cm.
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- Studies in Manuscript Cultures, 14
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- 091 IND i
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