Tattvabodha : Essays from the Lecture Series of the National Mission for Manuscripts: Vol: I

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Contents Acknowledgements. Introduction. I. Manuscripts context and relevance 1. Rare Indian manuscripts in Asian Countries/Lokesh Chandra. 2. Writing and the use of books in the age of Persian manuscripts/Irfan Habib. 3. Sanskrit knowledge on the Eve of colonialism and at the dawn of globalization/Sheldon Pollock. 4. Is the unpublished manuscript heritage of India relevant to contemporary academia/Kapila Vatsyayan. II. Manuscripts and oral traditions 1. Writing and Aphasia reflections on India's oral traditions/G.N. Devy. III. Textual Traditions 1. Bhakti and Tamil Textual tradition/R. Champakalakshmi. 2. A tribute to the text and context of the Natyasastra/Maria Krzysztof Byrski. 3. Glimpses of India's medical history/M.S. Valiathan. IV. Knowledge and beyond 1. Anthropos measuring Atomos and cosmos some reflections/D.P. Chattopadhyaya. Note on contributors. The National Mission for Manuscripts was established as a five year mission in February 2003 by the Ministry of Tourism and Culture Government of India with the purpose of locating documenting preserving and disseminating the knowledge content of India's handwritten manuscripts said to be the largest collection of handwritten knowledge documents anywhere in the world. While looking ahead to reconnect with the knowledge of the past the mission is in the process of trying to re contextualize the knowledge contained in manuscripts for the present and the future generations. The mission launched a lecture series titled Tattvabodha in January 2005 since then a monthly lecture series in Delhi and other centres in the country Tattvabodha has established itself as a forum for intellectual discourse debate and discussion. Eminent scholars representing different aspects of India's knowledge systems have addressed and interacted with highly receptive audiences over the course of the past year and a half. The present volume comprises the first ten lectures under Tattvabodha. A glance at the list of contributors will reveal that the mission has had the privilege of hosting the finest exponents of Indian culture and the compilation of their lectures makes for invaluable literature. 164 pp.

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Titel

Tattvabodha : Essays from the Lecture Series of the National Mission for Manuscripts: Vol: I

Verlag

National Mission for Manuscrip, New Delhi

Erscheinungsjahr

2006

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN-10

8190402951

ISBN-13

9788190402958

Einband

Hardbound

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New

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As New

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