In the past two decades, scholars have transformed our
understanding of the interactions between India and the West since
the consolidation of British power on the subcontinent around 1800.
While acknowledging the merits of this scholarship, Sheldon Pollock
argues that knowing how colonialism changed South Asian cultures,
particularly how Western modes of thought became dominant, requires
knowing what was there to be changed. Yet little is known about the
history of knowledge and imagination in late precolonial South
Asia, about what systematic forms of thought existed, how they
worked, or who produced them. This pioneering collection of essays
helps to rectify this situation by addressing the ways thinkers in
India and Tibet responded to a rapidly changing world in the three
centuries prior to 1800. Contributors examine new forms of
communication and conceptions of power that developed across the
subcontinent; changing modes of literary consciousness, practices,
and institutions in north India; unprecedented engagements in
comparative religion, autobiography, and ethnography in the
Indo-Persian sphere; and new directions in disciplinarity,
medicine, and geography in Tibet. Taken together, the essays in
"Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia" inaugurate the
exploration of a particularly complex intellectual terrain, while
gesturing toward distinctive forms of non-Western modernity.
"Contributors." Muzaffar Alam, Imre Bangha, Aditya Behl, Allison
Busch, Sumit Guha, Janet Gyatso, Matthew T. Kapstein, Francoise
Mallison, Sheldon Pollock, Velcheru Narayana Rao, Kurtis R.
Schaeffer, Sunil Sharma, David Shulman, Sanjay Subrahmanyam,
Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi
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