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Objects of translation: material culture and medieval "Hindu-Muslim" encounter

Finbarr Barry Flood
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments (page xi)
  • A Note on Translations and Transliterations (page xv)
  • Introduction (page 1)
    • Roots or Routes? (page 1)
    • Networks, Translation, and Transculturation (page 5)
    • Things and Texts (page 9)
  • 1 The Mercantile Cosmopolis (page 15)
    • Polyglot Frontiers and Permeable Boundaries (page 15)
    • Gifts, Idolatry, and the Political Economy (page 26)
    • Heteropraxy, Taxonomy, and Traveling Orthography (page 37)
  • 2 Cultural Cross-dressing (page 61)
    • Prestigious Imitation (page 61)
    • Fractal Kingship and Royal Castoffs (page 75)
    • The Raja's Finger and the Sultan's Belt (page 84)
  • 3 Accomodating the Infidel
    • Sunni Internationalism and the Ghurid Interlude (page 89)
    • From King of the Mountains to the Second Alexander (page 93)
    • Homology, Ambiguity, and the Rule of Śrī Hammīra (page 107)
  • 4 Looking at Loot (page 121)
    • Signs of Sovereignty (page 121)
    • Looting and Difference (page 123)
    • Trophies and Transculturation (page 126)
  • 5 Remaking Monuments (page 137)
    • Taxonomies, Anomalies, and Visual Pidgin (page 137)
    • Rupture and Reinscription (page 152)
    • Noble Chambers and Translated Stones (page 160)
    • Patrons and Masons (page 184)
    • Markets, Mobility, and Intentional Hybridity (page 189)
  • 6 Palimpsest Pasts and Fictive Genealogies (page 227)
    • A World within a World (page 227)
    • Monuments and Memory (page 247)
    • The Fate of Hammīra (page 255)
  • Conclusion: In and Out of Place (page 261)
  • Appendix: Principal Dynasties and Rulers Mentioned (page 269)
  • Notes (page 271)
  • Bibliography (page 311)
  • Index (page 353)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
SP 87.4 (Oct. 2012): 1195-1196 http://www.jstor.org/stable/23488656
BSOAS 73.1 (2010): 115-116 http://www.jstor.org/stable/25702996
W86 18.1 (Spring-Summer 2011): 97-99 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/659386
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Published: 2009
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9781400833245 (ebook)
  • 9780691125947 (hardcover)
  • 9780691180748 (paper)
Subject
  • Asian: South and Southeast
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