The history of the book in South Asia
Part I. Writing, Orality and the Manuscript Book. Literary culture and manuscript culture in precolonial India / Sheldon Pollock -- Early manuscript illumination / Jeremiah P. Losty -- The imperial library of the Great Mogul / Jeremiah P. Losty -- The Jain knowledge warehouses: traditional libraries...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Farnham
Ashgate
2013
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| Schriftenreihe: | The History of the book in the East
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Part I. Writing, Orality and the Manuscript Book. Literary culture and manuscript culture in precolonial India / Sheldon Pollock -- Early manuscript illumination / Jeremiah P. Losty -- The imperial library of the Great Mogul / Jeremiah P. Losty -- The Jain knowledge warehouses: traditional libraries in India / John E. Cort -- Orality and literacy/performance and permanence / Christian Lee Novetzke Part II Technology and Practices: Early books and new literary practices, 1556-1800 / Stuart Blackburn -- Calcutta: birthplace of the Indian lithographed book / Graham Shaw -- The coming of the book in Hindi and Urdu / Ulrike Stark -- An Indian success story: the House of Naval Kishore / Ulrike Stark -- Readers, reading practices, modes of reading / A.R. Venkatachalapathy Part III The Cultures of the Book in Colonial India: The Battala book market / Anindita Ghosh -- The domain of Konkani / Rochelle Pinto -- Reading in the public eye: the circulation of fiction in Indian libraries, c. 1835-1901 / Priya Joshi -- 'Petrifactions of bygone ages' : the sacred books of the East / Rimi Chatterjee -- Journals, publishing, and the literary system / Francesca Orsini Part IV Post-Colonial Histories: Publishers' perspective / Rita Kothari -- Epilogue: exaggerated obituraries? / A.R. Venkatachalapathy -- The practices of reading and writing / Laura M. Ahearn |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | xxix, 589 pages illustrations 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781409437840 978-1-4094-3784-0 |