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Category : Religion
Languages : en
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Transactions of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study Vol. 1
Author: Transactions of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study. V. 1
Author: Transactions of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study
Author: Indian Institute of Advanced Study
Author: Indian Institute of Advanced StudyPublisher:
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
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Transactions of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study
Author: R. NivasMonographic Series
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
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Category : Monographic series
Languages : en
Pages : 804
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Niharranjan Ray
Author: John W. HoodPublisher: Sahitya Akademi
ISBN: 9788126002078
Category : Historians
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Transactions of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study
Author: Sikhism and Indian SocietyPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Advances in the Study of Societal Multilingualism
Author: Joshua A. FishmanPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111684377
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 860
Book Description
The Contributions to the Sociology of Language series features publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It addresses the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches – theoretical and empirical – supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of scholars interested in language in society from a broad range of disciplines – anthropology, education, history, linguistics, political science, and sociology. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Natalie Fecher.
Objects of Translation
Author: Finbarr Barry FloodPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400833248
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Objects of Translation offers a nuanced approach to the entanglements of medieval elites in the regions that today comprise Afghanistan, Pakistan, and north India. The book--which ranges in time from the early eighth to the early thirteenth centuries--challenges existing narratives that cast the period as one of enduring hostility between monolithic "Hindu" and "Muslim" cultures. These narratives of conflict have generally depended upon premodern texts for their understanding of the past. By contrast, this book considers the role of material culture and highlights how objects such as coins, dress, monuments, paintings, and sculptures mediated diverse modes of encounter during a critical but neglected period in South Asian history. The book explores modes of circulation--among them looting, gifting, and trade--through which artisans and artifacts traveled, remapping cultural boundaries usually imagined as stable and static. It analyzes the relationship between mobility and practices of cultural translation, and the role of both in the emergence of complex transcultural identities. Among the subjects discussed are the rendering of Arabic sacred texts in Sanskrit on Indian coins, the adoption of Turko-Persian dress by Buddhist rulers, the work of Indian stone masons in Afghanistan, and the incorporation of carvings from Hindu and Jain temples in early Indian mosques. Objects of Translation draws upon contemporary theories of cosmopolitanism and globalization to argue for radically new approaches to the cultural geography of premodern South Asia and the Islamic world.