First Words, Last Words: New Theories for Reading Old Texts in Sixteenth-Century India

by Yigal Bronner and Lawrence Mccrea

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First Words, Last Words charts an intense "pamphlet war" that took place in sixteenth-century South India. Yigal Bronner and Lawrence McCrea explore this controversy as a case study in the dynamics of innovation in early modern India, a time of great intellectual innovation. This debate took place within the traditional discourses of Vedic Hermeneutics, or Mīmāṃsā, and its increasingly influential sibling discipline of Vedānta,...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0197583474

ISBN13:9780197583470

Release Date:August 2021

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:208 Pages

Weight:0.84 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.2" x 9.6"

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