Author: T. V. Mahalingama
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Category : India, South
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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On the collection of oriental manuscripts made by Colin Mackenzie, 1753?-1821, of the East India Company, and preserved in the Govt. Oriental Manuscripts Library, Madras.
Author: T. V. Mahalingam
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Category : India, South
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Eva Maria Wilden
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110352761
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 462
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The ancient Tamil poetic corpus of the Caṅam ("The Academy") is a national treasure for Tamilians and a battle-ground for linguists and historians of politics, culture and literature. Going back to oral predecessors probably dating back to the beginning of the first millennium, it has had an extremely rich and variegated history. Collected into anthologies and endowed with literary theories and voluminous commentaries, it became the centre-piece of the Tamil literary canon, associated with the royal court of the Pandya dynasty in Madurai. Its decline began in the late middle ages, and by the late 17th century it had fallen into near oblivion, before being rediscovered at the beginning of the print era. The present study traces the complex historical process of its transmission over some 2000 years, using and documenting a wide range of sources, in particular surviving manuscripts, the early prints, the commentaries of the literary and grammatical traditions and a vast range of later literature that creates a web of inter-textual references and quotations.
Author: Keith E. Yandell Keith E. Yandell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136818014
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 273
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The last two centuries have witnessed profound changes in the nature of public consciousness. Nowhere has this been more true than in India, especially in relation to changing cultures of public life and religious tradition in South India. Essays in this collection attempt to explore the intricacies of what is perhaps the single most complex socio-religious environment in the world. The essays consider the evolution of the notion of Hinduism as a distinct and singular separate religion; the relationship between this kind of formulation and various European or western influences in India; and differences which the formation of this idea and its acceptance have made upon wider public consciousness. Each essay also considers certain general issues - such as the passing along of religious authority from one generation to the next, and the rise of disputes over matters both ideological (or doctrinal) and institutional, disputes that are fundamental to the traditions concerned and yet have unmistakable cross-cultural references.
Author: William Taylor
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Category : India, South
Languages : en
Pages : 154
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Author: Tapan Raychaudhuri
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521226929
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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Examines the history of India during the period c. 1200-c. 1750.
Author: Gita V. Pai
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009150154
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 379
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Demonstrates how religious spaces are sites of contestation over sovereignty and broader debates about governance as they have been reconceived repeatedly.
Author: Georg Berkemer
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3112402693
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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The refereed series ZMO-Studien publishes monographs and edited volumes which mirror the interdisciplinary research programme and approach of the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient.
Author: James D. Ryan (Professor of Asian and comparative studies)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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Author: University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies. Library
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 760
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