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Culture of Encounters : Sanskrit at the Mughal Court.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: South Asia Across the Disciplines SeriesPublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (383 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780231540971
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Culture of EncountersDDC classification:
  • 491.209
LOC classification:
  • PK423.T787 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: Recasts the Mughal Empire as a polyglot polity that collaborated with its Indian subjects to envision its sovereignty.
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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.

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