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Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo Kingdoms of Memory, Empires of Ink – The Veda and
Book SynopsisThe backbone of this book on books is a history of a most unusual concept of the book that developed in South Asia with reference to the Veda… By the 19th century, regional cultures of print showed an uneven and spatially discontinuous development across the Indian subcontinent. They variously fed on regional patterns of communication, configurations of power, patronage, and a new economic regime. Their development formed part of tremendous transformations in the structures of power, statecraft, authority, and communication that the subcontinent was going through while being gradually absorbed into the globalizing orbit of the emerging British Empire. The period witnessed a general shift of knowledge-production sites and relocation of distribution and text-circulation networks towards new urban centres…. This book tries to understand how the emerging regional cultures of print created conditions for, inspired, and accommodated differently configured projects of bringing out printed editions of Vedic texts while leaving distinct traces of their respective nature on their editorial principles, book format, typographic form, and publishing ideology.Table of Contents PrefaceIntroductionI. Objects, Spaces and PracticesI.1. The Book as an object circulating in spaceI.2. The Rebel Book of the VedaII. The Veda Before PrintII.1 The Beginnings: the travelling VedaII.2 The living libraries: the memorized VedaII.3 Performance and spectacle: The ritual VedaII.4 Scribes and scripture: the handwritten VedaII.5. The Veda commented uponII.5.1. The imperial commentaryII.6 The Veda in the empire of writingIII.The Coming of Print to Indian SubcontinentIII.1 The Missionary, the Government and the Commercial PrintersIII.2 Preachers, printers and PunditsIII.2.1The Jesuit printers of the western coastIII.2.2 German Danish Evangelists on the Coromandel CoastIII.2.3 The media revolution of Serampore 1800 –1837III.2.4 Later Missionary print culturesIII.3 The Empire in print and the Ethnographic StateIII.3.1 The Infernal machineIII.3.2 The Government Press and imperial typographyIII.3.3 Print, catalogues and native knowledgeIII.3.4 The ethnographic state in printIII.4 Indian Commercial Printing after 1835 (New Beginnings)IV.The Printed VedaIV.1 The lost, imagined and recovered VedaIV.2. The Philological VedaIV.3. The Imperial VedaIV.3.1. Max Muller and his patronsIV.4. The Printed Veda for Paṇḍitas and PunditsIV.5. The Veda printed in IndiaIV.5.1 The polluting inkIV.5.2 Whose is the printed VedaIV.5.3. The codex and the pothiV. The reading practicesV.1. The cultural concepts and practices of readingV.1.1 The svādhyāya and the brahma-yajñaV.1.2 brahmavidyā-dānaV.1.3 The vidhāna traditionV.2. The regional practices of reading the VedaV.2.1 Modus legendi: daśagranthaV.2.2 Modus legendi: the veda-pārāyaṇaV.2.3 Modus legendi: the trisandhāVI. Towards Social history of print cultures in colonial IndiaVI.1. Printing revolution and social changeVI.2 Publishing Indian Religions in PrintVI.2.1 Printing and Appropriation of the pastVI.3 The regional print cultures and the VedaABBREVIATIONSREFERENCESINDEX
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