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The History of the Book in South Asia covers not only the various
modern states that make up South Asia today but also a multitude of
languages and scripts. For centuries it was manuscripts that
dominated book production and circulation, and printing technology
only began to make an impact in the late eighteenth century. Print
flourished in the colonial period and in particular lithographic
printing proved particularly popular in South Asia both because it
was economical and because it enabled multi-script printing. There
are now vibrant publishing cultures in the nation states of South
Asia, and the essays in this volume cover the whole range from
palm-leaf manuscripts to contemporary print culture.
Love may be a universal feeling, but culture and language play a
crucial role in defining it. Idioms of love have a long history,
and within every society there is always more than one discourse,
be it prescriptive, religious, or gender-specific, available at any
given time. This book explores the idioms of love that have
developed in South Asia, those words, conceptual clusters, images
and stories which have interlocked and grown into repertoires.
Including essays by literary scholars, historians, anthropologists,
film historians and political theorists, the collection unravels
the interconnecting strands in the history of the concept
(shringara, 'ishq, prem and "love") and maps their significance in
literary, oral and visual traditions. Each essay examines a
particular configuration and meaning of love on the basis of genre,
tellers and audiences, and the substantial introduction sets out
the main repertoires, presenting the student of South Asia with an
important cultural history.
What histories do objects like coins or gems help us to trace? How
can we read photographs and paintings? How do fictional tales,
imaginative biographies, basic lexicons, or accounts of Sufi
masters code intellectual worlds and reveal cultural and religious
shifts? What range of sources is available to the historian of
medieval and early modern India? How can textual sources illuminate
material objects, sites, and practices, and vice versa? What
historical methods do the different sources and material objects
require? Drawing on the rich scholarship of Simon E. Digby
(1932-2010) on South Asian medieval history and culture, the essays
in this volume offer method lessons in a wide range of historical
fields.
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