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Literary cultures in history : reconstructions from South Asia
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Literary cultures in history : reconstructions from South Asia

Author: Sheldon I Pollock
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003.
Series: Philip E. Lilienthal book in Asian studies.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Considers fifteen South Asian literary traditions - including Hindi, Indian-English, Persian, Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Urdu - in their full historical and cultural variety. This title makes a  Read more...

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Genre/Form: Handbuch
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Sheldon I Pollock
ISBN: 0520228219 9780520228214
OCLC Number: 46828947
Description: xxix, 1066 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: Part 1. Globalizing literary cultures --
Sanskrit literary culture from the inside out / Sheldon Pollock --
The culture and politics of Persian in precolonial Hindustan / Muzaffar Alam --
The historical formation of Indian-English literature / Vinay Dharwadker --
Part 2. Literature in southern locales --
Three moments in the genealogy of Tamil literary culture / Norman Cutler --
Critical tensions in the history of Kannada literary culture / D.R. Nagaraj --
Multiple literary cultures in Telugu : court, temple, and public / Velcheru Narayana Rao --
Genre and society : the literary culture of premodern Kerala / Rich Freeman --
Part 3. The centrality of borderlands --
The two histories of literary culture in Bengal / Sudipta Kaviraj --
From Hermacandra to Hind Svarāj : region and power in Gujarati literary culture / Sitamshu Yashaschandra --
At the crossroads of Indic and Iranian civilizations : Sindhi literary culture / Ali S. Asani --
Part 4. Buddhist cultures and South Asian literatures --
What is literature in Pali? / Steven Collins --
Works and persons in Sinhala literary culture / Charles Hallisey --
- The Indian literary identity in Tibet / Matthew T. Kapstein --
Part 5. The twinned histories of Urdu and Hindi --
A long history of Urdu literary culture, part 1 : naming and placing a literary culture / Shamsur Rahman Faruqi --
A long history of Urdu literary culture, part 2 : histories, performances, and masters / Frances W. Pritchett --
The progress of Hindi, part 1 : the development of a transregional idiom / Stuart McGregor --
The progress of Hindi, part 2 : Hindi and the nation / Harish Trivedi.
Series Title: Philip E. Lilienthal book in Asian studies.
Responsibility: edited by Sheldon Pollock.
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