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In recent years, scholars from a wide range of disciplines have
examined the revival in intellectual and literary cultures that
took place during India's 'early modern' centuries. This was both a
revival as well as a period of intense disputation and critical
engagement. It took in the relationship of contemporaries to their
own intellectual inheritances, shifts in the meaning and
application of particular disciplines, the development of new
literary genres and the emergence of new arenas and networks for
the conduct of intellectual and religious debate. Exploring the
worlds of Sanskrit and vernacular learning and piety in the
subcontinent, these essays examine the role of individual scholar
intellectuals in this revival, looking particularly at the
interplay between intellectual discipline, sectarian links, family
history and the personal religious interests of these men. Each
essay offers a fine-grained study of an individual. Some are
distinguished scholars, poets and religious leaders with
subcontinent-wide reputations, others obscure provincial writers
whose interest lies precisely in their relative anonymity. A
particular focus of interest will be the way in which these men
moved across the very different social milieus of early modern
India, finding ways to negotiate relationships at courtly centres,
temples, sectarian monasteries, the pandit assemblies of the
cosmopolitan city of Banaras and lesser religious centres in the
regions. This bookw as published as a special issue of South Asian
History and Culture.
In recent years, scholars from a wide range of disciplines have
examined the revival in intellectual and literary cultures that
took place during India's 'early modern' centuries. This was both a
revival as well as a period of intense disputation and critical
engagement. It took in the relationship of contemporaries to their
own intellectual inheritances, shifts in the meaning and
application of particular disciplines, the development of new
literary genres and the emergence of new arenas and networks for
the conduct of intellectual and religious debate. Exploring the
worlds of Sanskrit and vernacular learning and piety in the
subcontinent, these essays examine the role of individual scholar
intellectuals in this revival, looking particularly at the
interplay between intellectual discipline, sectarian links, family
history and the personal religious interests of these men. Each
essay offers a fine-grained study of an individual. Some are
distinguished scholars, poets and religious leaders with
subcontinent-wide reputations, others obscure provincial writers
whose interest lies precisely in their relative anonymity. A
particular focus of interest will be the way in which these men
moved across the very different social milieus of early modern
India, finding ways to negotiate relationships at courtly centres,
temples, sectarian monasteries, the pandit assemblies of the
cosmopolitan city of Banaras and lesser religious centres in the
regions. This bookw as published as a special issue of South Asian
History and Culture.
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