Culture of Encounters : : Sanskrit at the Mughal Court /

Culture of Encounters : : Sanskrit at the Mughal Court / / Audrey Truschke.

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Culture of Encounters documents the fascinating exchange between the Persian-speaking Islamic elite of the Mughal Empire and traditional Sanskrit scholars, which engendered a dynamic idea of Mughal rule essential to the empire's survival. This history begins with the invitation of Brahman and J...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
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Truschke, Audrey,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:South Asia Across the Disciplines
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.) :; 10 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 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 Mahābhāratas For Akbar
  • [4] Abū Al-Faz̤l 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 Kṛṣṇadāsa's Pārasīprakāśa (Light on Persian)
  • Appendix 2: Four Sanskrit Verses Transliterated in the Razmnāmah (Book of War)
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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