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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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