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The history of the book in South Asia
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1409437841 (hbk.)
9781409437840 (hbk.)
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The history of the book in South Asia / edited by Francesca Orsini
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Farnham, UK ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2013
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xxix, 589 p. ; ill. (b&w) ; 26 cm.
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History of the book in the East [2]
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction -- Part 1: Writing, orality and the manuscript book. Literary culture and manuscript culture in precolonial India / Sheldon Pollock -- Early manuscript illumination / Jeremiah P. Losty -- The imperial library of the Great Mogul / Jeremiah P. Losty -- The Jain knowledge warehouses: traditional libraries in India / John E. Cort -- Orality and literacy/performance and permanence / Christian Lee Novetzke -- Part 2: Technology and practices. Early books and new literary practices, 1556-1800 / Stuart Blackburn -- Calcutta: birthplace of the Indian lithographed book / Graham Shaw -- The coming of the book in Hindi and Urdu / Ulrike Stark -- An Indian success story: the House of Naval Kishore / Ulrike Stark -- Readers, reading practices, modes of reading / A.R. Venkatachalapathy -- Part 3: The cultures of the book in colonial India. The Battala book market / Anindita Ghosh -- The domain of Konkani / Rochelle Pinto -- Reading in the public eye: the circulation of fiction in Indian libraries, c. 1835-1901 / Priya Joshi -- ‘Petrifactions of bygone ages’: the sacred books of the East / Rimi Chatterjee -- Journals, publishing, and the literary syste / Francesca Orsini -- Part 4: Post-colonial histories. Publishers' perspective / Rita Kothari -- Epilogue: exaggerated obituraries? / A.R. Venkatachalapathy -- The practices of reading and writing / Laura M. Ahearn.
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Books -- South Asia -- History
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