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This collection of essays explores the history of the book in
pre-modern South Asia looking at the production, circulation,
fruition and preservation of manuscripts in different areas and
across time. Edited by the team of the Cambridge-based Sanskrit
Manuscripts Project and including contributions of the researchers
who collaborated with it, it covers a wide range of topics related
to South Asian manuscript culture: from the material dimension
(palaeography, layout, decoration) and the complicated interactions
of manuscripts with printing in late medieval Tibet and in modern
Tamil Nadu, to reading, writing, editing and educational practices,
from manuscripts as sources for the study of religious, literary
and intellectual traditions, to the creation of collections in
medieval India and Cambodia (one major centre of the so-called
Sanskrit cosmopolis), and the formation of the Cambridge
collections in the colonial period. The contributions reflect the
variety of idioms, literary genres, religious movements, and social
actors (intellectuals, scribes, patrons) of ancient South Asia, as
well as the variety of approaches, interests and specialisms of the
authors, and their impassionate engagement with manuscripts.
Puspika Volume 4 contains the proceedings of the seventh
International Indology Graduate Research Symposium (Leiden 2015).
The fourteen papers included here cover a rich variety of topics
related to the intellectual traditions of South Asia such as
grammar, poetry and philosophy, examined from a plurality of
disciplinary perspectives, with a particular emphasis on philology,
history and sociology. The first four articles of focus on the
Sanskrit language, from the strictly linguistic and historical
perspective to the wider political issue of its uses and abuses.
The second section deals with issues in poetry, aesthetics and
performative arts, ranging from classical Sanskrit mahakavyas to
contemporary Kathak dance. The third section is focused on the
philosophical traditions of South Asia (and beyond), with an eye to
both a strictly historical approach and a more argumentative and
evaluative one. Finally material culture and its relations to both
the historical and the ideological are the themes treated in the
last section of the volume.
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