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
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