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Kingdoms of memory, empires of ink : the Veda and the regional print cultures of colonial India
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- Creator
- Cezary Galewicz
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- First edition
- Kraków : Jagiellonian University Press, 2020
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource
- data file
- ISBNs
- 8323397694, 9788323397694
- OCLC
- on1158616249
- Cover -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- I. Objects, spaces and practices -- I.1. The book as an object circulating in space -- I.2. The rebel book of the Veda -- II. The Veda before print -- II.1. The beginnings: the travelling Veda -- II.2. The living libraries: the memorized Veda -- II.3. Performance and spectacle: the ritual Veda -- II.4. Scribes and scripture: the handwritten Veda -- II.5. The Veda commented upon -- II.6. The Veda in the empire of writing -- III. The coming of print to Indian subcontinent -- III.1. The missionary, the government and the commercialprinters
- III.2. Preachers, printers and pundits -- III.3. The Empire in print and the ethnographic state -- III.4. Indian commercial printing after 1835(new beginnings) -- IV. The Printed Veda -- IV.1. The lost and the imagined Veda -- IV.2. The recovered and the philological Veda -- IV.3. The imperial Veda -- IV.4. The printed Veda for paṇḍitas and pundits -- IV.5. The Veda printed by Indians in India -- V. Towards social history of print culturesin colonial India -- V.1. Printing revolution and social change -- V.2. Publishing Indian religions in print -- V.3. Regional print cultures and the Veda
- V.4. Towards a new understanding of reading cultures -- Abbreviations -- References -- APPENDIX. -- General index