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Modes of Philology in Medieval South India
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ISBN: 9789004332331 9004332332 9789004331679 9004331670 Year: 2017 Publisher: Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill,

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Philology was everywhere and nowhere in classical South Asia. While its civilizations possessed remarkably sophisticated tools and methods of textual analysis, interpretation, and transmission, they lacked any sense of a common disciplinary or intellectual project uniting these; indeed they lacked a word for ‘philology’ altogether. Arguing that such pseudepigraphical genres as the Sanskrit purāṇas and tantras incorporated modes of philological reading and writing, Cox demonstrates the ways in which the production of these works in turn motivated the invention of new kinds of śāstric scholarship. Combining close textual analysis with wider theoretical concerns, Cox traces this philological transformation in the works of the dramaturgist Śāradātanaya, the celebrated Vaiṣṇava poet-theologian Veṅkaṭanātha, and the maverick Śaiva mystic Maheśvarānanda.


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Politics, kingship and poetry in Medieval South India : Moonset on Sunrise Mountain
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ISBN: 1316781747 1316781976 1316623629 1316771636 1316782204 131678312X 1316782433 1107172373 1316782891 1316780368 9781316783122 9781316782439 9781316771631 9781107172371 Year: 2016 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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In this compelling new study, Whitney Cox presents a fundamental re-imagining of the politics of pre-modern India through the reinterpretation of the contested accession of Kulottunga I (r.1070-1120) as the ruler of the imperial Chola dynasty. By focusing on this complex event and its ramifications over time, Cox traces far-reaching transformations throughout the kingdom and beyond. Through a methodologically innovative combination of history, theory and the close reading of a rich series of Sanskrit and Tamil textual sources, Cox reconstructs the nature of political society in medieval India. A major intervention in the fields of South Asian social, political and cultural history, religion and comparative political thought, this book poses fresh comparative and conceptual questions about politics, history, agency and representation in the pre-modern world.


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Bilingual discourse and cross-cultural fertilisation : Sanskrit and Tamil in medieval India
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Year: 2013 Publisher: Pondicherry : Institut Français D'indologie,

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