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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.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit --- Philology, Modern --- Discourse analysis, Literary --- Language and languages --- Sanskrit language --- Literature and society --- History. --- Research --- Study and teaching --- History and criticism. --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sanscrit language --- Foreign languages --- Languages --- Literary discourse analysis --- Philology, Medieval --- Sanskrit manuscripts --- Social aspects --- Sociolinguistics --- Indo-Aryan languages --- Manipravalam language (Malayalam) --- Vedic language --- Anthropology --- Communication --- Ethnology --- Information theory --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Philology --- Linguistics --- Rhetoric --- Literary style --- Medieval philology --- Modern philology --- Discourse analysis, Literary. --- Literature and society. --- Manuscripts, Sanskrit. --- Sanskrit language. --- Study and teaching. --- Research. --- India. --- India, South. --- Foreign language study --- Language and education --- Language schools --- India, South --- India --- India, Southern --- Southern India --- Bharat --- Bhārata --- Government of India --- Ḣindiston Respublikasi --- Inde --- Indi --- Indien --- Indii͡ --- Indland --- Indo --- Republic of India --- Sāthāranarat ʻIndīa --- Yin-tu --- Literature: history & criticism
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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.
India --- History. --- Choòla dynasty, --- India, South --- Kings and rulers. --- Civilization. --- India, Southern --- South India --- Southern India
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