1st Edition

Scholar Intellectuals in Early Modern India Discipline, Sect, Lineage and Community

202 Pages
by Routledge

202 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. Social history in the study of Indian intellectual cultures?  Christopher Minkowski, Rosalind O’Hanlon and Anand Venkatkrishnan

2. South meets North: Banaras from the perspective of Appayya Dīkṣita  Yigal Bronner

3. ‘Disagreement without disrespect’: transitions in a lineage from Bhaṭṭoji to Nāgeśa  Madhav M. Deshpande

4. Public philology: text criticism and the sectarianization of Hinduism in early modern south India  Elaine Fisher

5. Eknāth in context: the literary, social, and political milieus of an early modern saint-poet  Jon Keune

6. Freed by the weight of history: polemic and doxography in sixteenth century Vedānta  Lawrence McCrea

7. Discourses of caste over the longue durée: Gopīnātha and social classification in India, ca. 1400–1900  Rosalind O’Hanlon, Gergely Hidas and Csaba Kiss

8. Darbār, maṭha, devasthānam: the politics of intellectual commitment and religious organization in sixteenth-century South India  Valerie Stoker

9. Ritual, reflection, and religion: the Devas of Banaras  Anand Venkatkrishnan

10. Envisioning the social order in a southern port city: the Tamil diary of Ananda Ranga Pillai  David Washbrook

Biography

Christopher Minkowski is Boden Professor of Sanskrit, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford.

Rosalind O’Hanlon is Professor of Indian History and Culture, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford.

Anand Venkatkrishnan is a senior research student in the Department of Religion, Columbia University.