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Kingdoms of memory, empires of ink : the Veda and the regional print cultures of colonial India /
The backbone of this book on books is a history of a most unusual concept of the book that developed in South Asia with reference to the Veda' By the 19th century, regional cultures of print showed an uneven and spatially discontinuous development across the Indian subcontinent. They variously...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Kraków :
Jagiellonian University Press,
2020.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- I. Objects, spaces and practices
- I.1. The book as an object circulating in space
- I.2. The rebel book of the Veda
- II. The Veda before print
- II. 1. The beginnings: the travelling Veda
- II. 2. The living libraries: the memorized Veda
- II. 3. Performance and spectacle: the ritual Veda
- II. 4. Scribes and scripture: the handwritten Veda
- II. 5. The Veda commented upon
- II. 6. The Veda in the empire of writing
- III. The coming of print to Indian subcontinent
- III. 1. The missionary, the government and the commercialprinters
- III.2. Preachers, printers and pundits
- III.3. The Empire in print and the ethnographic state
- III.4. Indian commercial printing after 1835(new beginnings)
- IV. The Printed Veda
- IV.1. The lost and the imagined Veda
- IV.2. The recovered and the philological Veda
- IV.3. The imperial Veda
- IV.4. The printed Veda for paṇḍitas and pundits
- IV.5. The Veda printed by Indians in India
- V. Towards social history of print culturesin colonial India
- V.1. Printing revolution and social change
- V.2. Publishing Indian religions in print
- V.3. Regional print cultures and the Veda
- v. 4. Towards a new understanding of reading cultures
- Abbreviations
- References
- APPENDIX.
- General index