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• Winner of John F. Richards Prize in South Asian History, American Historical Association 2017

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In Culture of Encounters, Audrey Truschke makes a compelling argument for the importance of Sanskrit and Sanskrit intellectuals in the Mughal court. Although certain aspects of these encounters have been researched before, Truschke work is more comprehensive, and her precise textual analyses go further than any other so far. This is an important and impressive work that should change the field of Mughal studies. -- Francesca Orsini, SOAS, University of London A remarkable achievement. Exploiting a substantial archive of Sanskrit materials, Truschke reveals a vibrantly multicultural Mughal court - and one more thoroughly Indian than is commonly thought, owing to its close engagement with the land's oldest literary culture. -- Richard M. Eaton, University of Arizona

In Culture of Encounters, Audrey Truschke makes a compelling argument for the importance of Sanskrit and Sanskrit intellectuals in the Mughal court. Although certain aspects of these encounters have been researched before, Truschke work is more comprehensive, and her precise textual analyses go further than any other so far. This is an important and impressive work that should change the field of Mughal studies. -- Francesca Orsin, SOAS, University of London

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Audrey Truschke is assistant professor of South Asian history at Rutgers University-Newark and a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Religious Studies at Stanford University. She writes about cultural and intellectual history, the relationship between empire and literature, and cross-cultural interactions in early modern South Asia.

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