The Early Modern in South Asia
The Early Modern in South Asia

Author: Meena Bhargava

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-01-05

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781009215374

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Did modernity arrive in South Asia with British colonialism? Or was South Asia already modern by then? What might have that modernity looked like? The Early Modern in South Asia engages with these questions. It brings together ten chapters, which collectively trace the contours of South Asia's early modernity between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. They do this by examining the nature of historical change in various domains, including philosophy, warfare, law, environment, politics, violence, religion, and society. The chapters argue that in all these fields, there were noticeable developments during this period, marking a shift from the medieval to the early modern. The introductory chapter contextualizes this by analysing the politics of periodization in history-writing across the world. It discusses the meanings of the relatively new concept of early modernity and the implications of its use for how we understand historical change and continuity in South Asia.

Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia
Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia

Author: Sheldon Pollock

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2011-03-14

Total Pages: 389

ISBN-13: 0822349043

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Fills a gap in scholarship on Indian culture and power between 1500 and 1800, arguing that we can't know how colonialism changed South Asia unless we know what there was to be changed.

A History of Early Modern Southeast Asia, 1400-1830
A History of Early Modern Southeast Asia, 1400-1830

Author: Barbara Watson Andaya

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-02-19

Total Pages: 379

ISBN-13: 0521889928

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Written by two expert and highly esteemed authors, this is the much-anticipated textbook on the early modern history of Southeast Asia.

War, Culture and Society in Early Modern South Asia, 1740-1849
War, Culture and Society in Early Modern South Asia, 1740-1849

Author: Kaushik Roy

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2011-03-30

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 113679087X

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This book examines military success of the British in South Asia during the eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth centuries. Placing South Asian military history in global, comparative context, it examines military innovations; armies and how they conducted themselves; navies and naval warfare; major Indian military powers, and the British, explaining why they succeeded.

Early Modern Southeast Asia, 1350-1800
Early Modern Southeast Asia, 1350-1800

Author: Ooi Keat Gin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-10-08

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 1317559193

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This book presents extensive new research findings on and new thinking about Southeast Asia in this interesting, richly diverse, but much understudied period. It examines the wide and well-developed trading networks, explores the different kinds of regimes and the nature of power and security, considers urban growth, international relations and the beginnings of European involvement with the region, and discusses religious factors, in particular the spread and impact of Christianity. One key theme of the book is the consideration of how well-developed Southeast Asia was before the onset of European involvement, and, how, during the peak of the commercial boom in the 1500s and 1600s, many polities in Southeast Asia were not far behind Europe in terms of socio-economic progress and attainments.

Charting the Shape of Early Modern Southeast Asia
Charting the Shape of Early Modern Southeast Asia

Author: Anthony Reid

Publisher: Silkworm Books

Published: 2000-08-01

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 1630414816

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In this volume, Anthony Reid positions Southeast Asia on the stage of world history. He argues that the region not only had a historical character of its own, but that it played a crucial role in shaping the modern world. Southeast Asia’s interaction with the forces uniting and transforming the world is explored through chapters focusing on Islamization; Chinese, Siamese, Cham and Javanese trade; Makasar’s modernizing moment; and slavery. The last three chapters examine from different perspectives how this interaction of relative equality shifted to one of an impoverished, “third world” region exposed to European colonial power.

Southeast Asia in the Early Modern Era
Southeast Asia in the Early Modern Era

Author: Anthony J. S. Reid

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2018-07-05

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 150173217X

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The political and religious identities of Southeast Asia were largely formed by the experiences of the fifteenth through seventeenth centuries, when international commerce boomed before eventually falling under the domination of well-armed European powers intent on monopoly. This book is the first to document the full range of responses to the profound changes of this period: urbanization and the burgeoning of commerce; the proliferation of firearms; an increase in the number and strength of states; and the shift from experimental spirit worship to the universalist scriptural religions of Islam, Christianity, and Theravada Buddhism. Bringing together ten essays by an international group of historians, Southeast Asia in the Early Modern Era shows how various states adapted to new pressures and compares economic, religious, and political developments among the major cultures of the area.

Translating Wisdom
Translating Wisdom

Author: Shankar Nair

Publisher: University of California Press

Published: 2020-04-28

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 0520345681

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A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. During the height of Muslim power in Mughal South Asia, Hindu and Muslim scholars worked collaboratively to translate a large body of Hindu Sanskrit texts into the Persian language. Translating Wisdom reconstructs the intellectual processes and exchanges that underlay these translations. Using as a case study the 1597 Persian rendition of the Yoga-Vasistha—an influential Sanskrit philosophical tale whose popularity stretched across the subcontinent—Shankar Nair illustrates how these early modern Muslim and Hindu scholars drew upon their respective religious, philosophical, and literary traditions to forge a common vocabulary through which to understand one another. These scholars thus achieved, Nair argues, a nuanced cultural exchange and interreligious and cross-philosophical dialogue significant not only to South Asia’s past but also its present.

Buddhist Dynamics in Premodern and Early Modern Southeast Asia
Buddhist Dynamics in Premodern and Early Modern Southeast Asia

Author: D Christian Lammerts

Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

Published: 2015-07-13

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 9814519065

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The study of historical Buddhism in premodern and early modern Southeast Asia stands at an exciting and transformative juncture. Interdisciplinary scholarship is marked by a commitment to the careful examination of local and vernacular expressions of Buddhist culture as well as to reconsiderations of long-standing questions concerning the diffusion of and relationships among varied texts, forms of representation, and religious identities, ideas, and practices. The twelve essays in this collection, written by leading scholars in Buddhist Studies and Southeast Asian history, epigraphy, and archaeology, comprise the latest research in the field to deal with the dynamics of mainland and (pen)insular Buddhism between the sixth and nineteenth centuries C.E. Drawing on new manuscript sources, inscriptions, and archaeological data, they investigate the intellectual, ritual, institutional, sociopolitical, aesthetic, and literary diversity of local Buddhisms, and explore their connected histories and contributions to the production of intraregional and transregional Buddhist geographies.

Time, History and the Religious Imaginary in South Asia
Time, History and the Religious Imaginary in South Asia

Author: Anne Murphy

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-03-12

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 113670728X

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Religious imaginary is a way of conceiving and structuring the world within the conceptual and imaginative traditions of the religious. Using religious imaginary as a reference, this book analyses temporal ideologies and expressions of historicity in South Asia in the early modern, pre-colonial and early colonial period. Chapters explore the multiple understandings of time and the past that informed the historical imagination in various kinds of literary representations, including historiographical and literary texts, hagiography, and religious canonical literature. The book addresses the contributing forces and comparative implications of the formation of religious and communitarian sensibilities as expressed through the imagination of the past, and suggests how these relate to each other within and across traditions in South Asia. By bringing diverse materials together, this book presents new commonalities and distinctions that inform a larger understanding of how religion and other cultural formations impinge on the concept of temporality, and the representation of it as history.