Truschke Culture of Encounters

Sanskrit at the Mughal Court
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-231-54097-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 384 Seiten

Reihe: South Asia Across the Disciplines

Recasts the Mughal Empire as a polyglot polity that collaborated with its Indian subjects to envision its sovereignty

Autoren/Hrsg.

Truschke, Audrey

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Indische & Dravidische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration and Other Scholarly Conventions
Introduction: The Mughal Culture of Power
1. Brahman and Jain Sanskrit Intellectuals at the Mughal Court
2. Sanskrit Textual Production for the Mughals
3. Many Persian Maha bharatas for Akbar
4. Abu al-Fazl Redefines Islamicate Knowledge and Akbar's Sovereignty
5. Writing About the Mughal World in Sanskrit
6. Incorporating Sanskrit Into the Persianate World
Conclusion: Power, Literature, and Early Modernity
Appendix 1: Bilingual Example Sentences in Krsnadasa's Parasiprakasa (Light on Persian)
Appendix 2: Four Sanskrit Verses Transliterated in the Razmna mah (Book of War)
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Audrey Truschke is assistant professor of South Asian history at Rutgers University–Newark and a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Religious Studies at Stanford University. She writes about cultural and intellectual history, the relationship between empire and literature, and cross-cultural interactions in early modern South Asia.