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South Asian Texts in History

Bronner, Yigal [u.a.] [Hrsg.]:
South Asian texts in history : critical engagements with Sheldon Pollock / ed. by Yigal Bronner, Whitney Cox, and Lawrence McCrea. - Ann Arbor, Mich. : Association for Asian Studies, 2011. - (Asia past & present : new research from AAS ; 7)
ISBN 978-0-924304-63-7
EUR 35,00
DDC: 891.209

Beschreibung
South Asian Texts in History charts the contours of a reenvisioned and revitalized field of Indology in the light of the groundbreaking research of Sheldon Pollock. One of the many exciting aspects of Pollock’s work is its unprecedented combination of classical textual study with cutting edge theoretical and social scientific inquiry - a combination which this book sets out to emulate. Pollock has trained and inspired a new generation of scholars, many of whom have contributed to this volume. The essays are organized into five groups that reflect the major domains of Pollock’s immense contributions to the field: the epic Ramayana, Sanskrit literature and literary theory, systematic thought in premodern South Asia, the birth of a new vernacular cultural order in the subcontinent during the second millennium CE, and India’s early modernity. Most of the essays concentrate on materials in Sanskrit, but there are also considerable contributions to the history of Hindi, Tamil, and Persian literatures. The book presents for the first time an overview of the groundbreaking contributions of Sheldon Pollock to South Asia scholarship over the past three decades, while offering a set of critiques of key elements of his theories. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
Acknowledgments. ix
Contributors. xi
Nicholas Dirks:
Foreword. xiii
Yigal Bronner, Whitney Cox, and Lawrence McCrea:
Introduction. 1
PART ONE: THE RĀMĀYAṆA AND ITS READERS
1. Ajay K. Rao:
A New Perspective on the Royal Rāma Cult at Vijayanagara. 25
2. Yigal Bronner:
A Text with a Thesis: The Rāmāyaṇa from Appayya Dīkṣita’s Receptive End. 45
3. Robert Goldman:
Expert Nation: An Epic of Antiquity in the World of Modernity. 65
PART TWO: KĀVYA: SANSKRIT LITERARY CULTURE IN HISTORY
4. Xi He:
The Prose Varṇaka in the Lalitavistara. 83
5. Sudipta Kaviraj:
The Second Mahābhārata. 103
6. Jesse Ross Knutson:
The Vernacular Cosmopolitan: Jayadeva’s Gītagovinda. 125
PART THREE: THE VERNACULAR AND THE COSMOPOLITAN
7. Blake Wentworth:
Insiders, Outsiders, and the Tamil Tongue. 153
8. Whitney Cox:
Saffron in the Rasam. 177
9. Allison Busch:
Hindi Literary Beginnings. 203
PART FOUR: ŚĀSTRA: SANSKRIT SYSTEMS OF KNOWLEDGE IN (AND OUTSIDE) HISTORY
10. Lawrence McCrea:
Standards and Practices: Following, Making, and Breaking the Rules of Śāstra. 229
11. Dan Arnold:
For Whom is the “Naturalness” of Language a Problem? Thoughts on Reframing a Buddhist-Mīmāṃsaka Debate. 245
12. Guy Leavitt:
The Social in Kashmiri Aesthetics: Suggesting and Speciously Savoring Rasa in Ānandavardhana and Abhinavagupta. 267
PART FIVE: EARLY MODERNITY
13. Parimal G. Patil:
The End of the Ends of Man? 293
14. Ethan Kroll:
The Triumph of Reason: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Sanskrit Discourse and the Application of Logic to Law. 315
15. Ananya Vajpeyi:
The Śūdra in History: From Scripture to Segregation. 337
16. Rajeev Kinra:
This Noble Science: Indo-Persian Comparative Philology, c. 1000–1800 CE. 359
Index. 387

Herausgeber
YIGAL BRONNER is Assistant Professor in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. Profile page.
WHITNEY COX is Senior Lecturer in Sanskrit in the Department of the Languages and Cultures of South Asia at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Profile page.
LAWRENCE MCCREA is Assistant Professor of Sanskrit Studies in the Department of Asian Studies at Cornell University. Profile page.

Quellen: Association for Asian Studies; Mitteilung von Whitney Cox in der Mailing-Liste "Indology", 26. Oktober 2011