The Practice of Texts

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520383559
Total Pages : 240 pages
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Download or read book The Practice of Texts written by Anthony Cerulli and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. The Practice of Texts examines the uses of the Sanskrit medical classics in two educational institutions of India’s classical life science, Ayurveda: the college and the gurukula. In this interdisciplinary study, Anthony Cerulli probes late- and postcolonial reforms in ayurvedic education, the development of the ayurvedic college, and the impacts of the college curriculum on ways that ayurvedic physicians understand and use the Sanskrit classics in their professional work today. His fieldwork in south India illuminates the nature of philology and ritual in the ayurvedic gurukula and showcases how knowledge is exchanged among students, teachers, and patients. The result, Cerulli shows, is that the Sanskrit classics are presented and applied differently in the college and gurukula, producing a variety of relationships with these texts among practitioners. By interrogating the politics surrounding the place of the Sanskrit classics in ayurvedic curricula, this book reveals a spectrum of views about the history and tradition of Ayurveda in modern India.

Philology and Criticism

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Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1783085789
Total Pages : 512 pages
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Book Synopsis Philology and Criticism by : Vishwa Adluri

Download or read book Philology and Criticism written by Vishwa Adluri and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2018-06-29 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philology and Criticism contrasts the Mahābhārata’s preservation and transmission within the Indian scribal and commentarial traditions with Sanskrit philology after 1900, as German Indologists proposed a critical edition of the Mahābhārata to validate their racial and nationalist views. Vishwa Adluri and Joydeep Bagchee show how, in contrast to the Indologists’ unscientific theories, V. S. Sukthankar assimilated the principles of neo-Lachmannian textual criticism to defend the transmitted text and its traditional reception as a work of law, philosophy and salvation. The authors demonstrate why, after the edition’s completion, no justification exists for claiming that an earlier heroic epic existed, that the Brahmans redacted the heroic epic to produce the Mahābhārata or that they interpolated “sectarian” gods such as Vis.n.u and Śiva into the work. By demonstrating how the Indologists committed technical errors, cited flawed and biased scholarship and used circular argumentation to validate their racist and anti-Semitic theories, Philology and Criticism frees readers to approach the Mahābhārata as “the principal monument of bhakti” (Madeleine Biardeau). The authoritative guide to the critical edition’s correct use and interpretation, Philology and Criticism urges South Asianists to view Hinduism as a complex debate about ontology and ethics rather than through the lenses of “Brahmanism” and “sectarianism.” It launches a new world philology—one that is plural and self-reflexive rather than Eurocentric and ahistorical.

Review of Indological Research in Last 75 Years

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Total Pages : 910 pages
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Book Synopsis Review of Indological Research in Last 75 Years by : P. J. Chinmulgund

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Ṣaṣṭyabdasaṃskr̥tam: India

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Total Pages : 464 pages
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The Politics and Poetics of Water

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Publisher : Orient Blackswan
ISBN 13 : 9788125028697
Total Pages : 436 pages
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Book Synopsis The Politics and Poetics of Water by : Lyla Mehta

Download or read book The Politics and Poetics of Water written by Lyla Mehta and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 2005 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book studies the relationship between large dams and water scarcity in Kutch. It argues that water scarcity is not merely natural, but is embedded in the social and power relations shaping water access, use and practices. Scarcity is portrayed as natural rather than human induced and this naturalisation of scarcity is beneficial to those who are powerful. This is a significant book in the light of the growing water crisis in India, and the world.

History of Linguistics Volume I

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317895312
Total Pages : 224 pages
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Book Synopsis History of Linguistics Volume I by : Giulio C. Lepschy

Download or read book History of Linguistics Volume I written by Giulio C. Lepschy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive history of linguistics is part of a 5 volume set. Together, the volumes examine the social, cultural and religious functions of language, its place in education, the prestige attached to different varieties of language, and the presentation of lexical and grammatical descriptions. They explore the linguistic interests and assumptions of individual cultures in their own terms, without trying to transpose and reshape them into the context of contemporary ideas of what the scientific study of language ought to be. The authors of individual chapters are all specialists who have been able to analyse the primary sources, and so produce original syntheses which offer an authoritative view of the different traditions and periods. Volime One examines the developments of Chinese linguistics, Indian grammatical tradition, the linguistic interests of the Near East, the Hebrew tradition, and the Arabic grammatical system of the Middle Ages.

Vision, Tradition, Interpretation

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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110855925
Total Pages : 284 pages
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Indian Books in Print

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Total Pages : 1044 pages
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Language, Culture and Power

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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351335952
Total Pages : 238 pages
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Download or read book Language, Culture and Power written by C. T. Indra and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-11-13 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the relationship between language and power across cultural boundaries. It evaluates the vital role of translation in redefining culture and ethnic identity. During the first phase of colonialism, mid-18th to late-19th century, the English-speaking missionaries and East India Company functionaries in South India were impelled to master Tamil, the local language, in order to transact their business. Tamil also comprised ancient classical literary works, especially ethical and moral literature, which were found especially suited to the preferences of Christian missionaries. This interface between English and Tamil acted as a conduit for cultural transmission among different groups. The essays in this volume explore the symbiotic relation between English and Tamil during the late colonial and postcolonial as also the modernist and the postmodernist periods. The book showcases the modernity of contemporary Tamil culture as reflected in its literary and artistic productions — poetry, fiction, short fiction and drama — and outlines the aesthetics, philosophy and methodology of these translations. This volume and its companion (which looks at the period between 1750 to 1900 CE) cover the late colonial and postcolonial era and will be of interest to students, scholars and researchers of translation studies, literature, linguistics, sociology and social anthropology, South Asian studies, colonial and postcolonial studies, literary and critical theory as well as culture studies.

Studies in Indology

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
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South Asian Folklore in Transition

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429753810
Total Pages : 261 pages
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Download or read book South Asian Folklore in Transition written by Frank J. Korom and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indian Subcontinent has been at the centre of folklore inquiry since the 19th century, yet, while much attention was paid to India by early scholars, folkloristic interest in the region waned over time until it virtually disappeared from the research agendas of scholars working in the discipline of folklore and folklife. This fortunately changed in the 1980s when a newly energized group of younger scholars, who were interested in a variety of new approaches that went beyond the textual interface, returned to folklore as an untapped resource in South Asian Studies. This comprehensive volume further reinvigorates the field by providing fresh studies and new models both for studying the “lore” and the “life” of everyday people in the region, as well as their engagement with the world at large. By bringing Muslims, material culture, diasporic horizons, global interventions and politics to bear on South Asian folklore studies, the authors hope to stimulate more dialogue across theoretical and geographical borders to infuse the study of the Indian Subcontinent’s cultural traditions with a new sense of relevance that will be of interest not only to areal specialists but also to folklorists and anthropologists in general. This book was originally published as a special issue of South Asian History and Culture.

Purātattva

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Total Pages : 374 pages
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Studying Early India

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Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1843311321
Total Pages : 270 pages
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Download or read book Studying Early India written by Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A focal study of the methodological changes that confront historians of pre-colonial India.

Vedic Bibliography

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Total Pages : 1226 pages
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Book Synopsis Vedic Bibliography by : Ramchandra Narayan Dandekar

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Ānanda Vārtā

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Total Pages : 422 pages
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Who's who on Indian Stamps

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Total Pages : 476 pages
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Book Synopsis Who's who on Indian Stamps by : Sushma Suresh

Download or read book Who's who on Indian Stamps written by Sushma Suresh and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes brief biographies of the 451 personalities on the stamps.

India-GDR Relations

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Publisher : New Delhi : Kalamkar Prakashan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
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Book Synopsis India-GDR Relations by : Diethelm Weidemann

Download or read book India-GDR Relations written by Diethelm Weidemann and published by New Delhi : Kalamkar Prakashan. This book was released on 1980 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles by Indian and German Democratic Republic scholars, published on the occasion of the 4th national conference of the All India Indo-GDR Friendship Association.