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Culture of Encounters : Sanskrit at the Mughal Court.

Truschke, Audrey.

Culture of Encounters : Sanskrit at the Mughal Court. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (383 pages) - South Asia Across the Disciplines Series . - South Asia Across the Disciplines Series .

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration and Other Scholarly Conventions -- Introduction: The Mughal Culture of Power -- 1. Brahman and Jain Sanskrit Intellectuals at the Mughal Court -- 2. Sanskrit Textual Production for the Mughals -- 3. Many Persian Maha bharatas for Akbar -- 4. Abu al-Fazl Redefines Islamicate Knowledge and Akbar's Sovereignty -- 5. Writing About the Mughal World in Sanskrit -- 6. Incorporating Sanskrit Into the Persianate World -- Conclusion: Power, Literature, and Early Modernity -- Appendix 1: Bilingual Example Sentences in Krsnadasa's Parasiprakasa (Light on Persian) -- Appendix 2: Four Sanskrit Verses Transliterated in the Razmna mah (Book of War) -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Recasts the Mughal Empire as a polyglot polity that collaborated with its Indian subjects to envision its sovereignty.

9780231540971


Sanskrit language - Etymology.


Electronic books.

PK423.T787 2016

491.209

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