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Author:   Cezary Galewicz
Publisher:   Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo
Imprint:   Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.666kg
ISBN:  

9788323343912

ISBN 10:   8323343918
Pages:   306
Publication Date:   17 April 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Preface Introduction I. Objects, Spaces and Practices I.1. The Book as an object circulating in space I.2. The Rebel Book of the Veda II. The Veda Before Print II.1 The Beginnings: the travelling Veda II.2 The living libraries: the memorized Veda II.3 Performance and spectacle: The ritual Veda II.4 Scribes and scripture: the handwritten Veda II.5. The Veda commented upon II.5.1. The imperial commentary II.6 The Veda in the empire of writing III.The Coming of Print to Indian Subcontinent III.1 The Missionary, the Government and the Commercial Printers III.2 Preachers, printers and Pundits III.2.1The Jesuit printers of the western coast III.2.2 German Danish Evangelists on the Coromandel Coast III.2.3 The media revolution of Serampore 1800 –1837 III.2.4 Later Missionary print cultures III.3 The Empire in print and the Ethnographic State III.3.1 The Infernal machine III.3.2 The Government Press and imperial typography III.3.3 Print, catalogues and native knowledge III.3.4 The ethnographic state in print III.4 Indian Commercial Printing after 1835 (New Beginnings) IV.The Printed Veda IV.1 The lost, imagined and recovered Veda IV.2. The Philological Veda IV.3. The Imperial Veda IV.3.1. Max Muller and his patrons IV.4. The Printed Veda for Paṇḍitas and Pundits IV.5. The Veda printed in India IV.5.1 The polluting ink IV.5.2 Whose is the printed Veda IV.5.3. The codex and the pothi V. The reading practices V.1. The cultural concepts and practices of reading V.1.1 The svādhyāya and the brahma-yajña V.1.2 brahmavidyā-dāna V.1.3 The vidhāna tradition V.2. The regional practices of reading the Veda V.2.1 Modus legendi: daśagrantha V.2.2 Modus legendi: the veda-pārāyaṇa V.2.3 Modus legendi: the trisandhā VI. Towards Social history of print cultures in colonial India VI.1. Printing revolution and social change VI.2 Publishing Indian Religions in Print VI.2.1 Printing and Appropriation of the past VI.3 The regional print cultures and the Veda ABBREVIATIONS REFERENCES INDEX

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Cezary Galewicz, Associate Professor in Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilisations at the Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland. A historian of civilisations; a researcher exploring contemporary forms of cultural, religious and literary traditions of South Asia; member and coordinator of international research teams; translator.

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