Objects of translation : material culture and medieval Hindu-Muslim encounter / Finbarr B. Flood.
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TextPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2009Description: xv, 366 p. : 27 cmISBN: 9780691125947 (hardcover : alk. paper); 8178242737 (hardcover : alk. paper)Subject(s): Material culture -- South Asia -- History | Cultural geography -- South Asia -- History | South Asia -- Ethnic relations -- HistoryDDC classification: 954 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section | 954 FLO/O (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | P30926 |
A Note on Translations and Transliterations
Roots or Routes?
Networks, Translation, and Transculturation
Things and Texts
The Mercantile Cosmopolis
Polyglot Frontiers and Permeable Boundaries
Gifts, Idolatry, and the Political Economy
Heteropraxy, Taxonomy, and Traveling Orthography
Cultural Cross-dressing
Prestigious Imitation
Fractal Kingship and Royal Castoffs
The Raja's Finger and the Sultans Belt
Accommodating the Infidel
Sunni Internationalism and the Ghurid Interlude
From King of the Mountains to the Second Alexander
Homology, Ambiguity, and the Rule of Sri Hammira
Looking at Loot
Signs of Sovereignty
Looting and Difference
Trophies and Transculturation
Remaking Monuments
Taxonomiest Anomalies, and Visual Pidgin
Rupture and Reinscription
Noble Chambers and Translated Stones
Patrons and Masons
Markets, Mobility, and Intentional Hybridity
Palimpsest Pasts and Fictive Genealogies
A World within a World
Monuments and Memory
The Fate of Hammira
Conclusion: In and Out of Place
Appendix: Principal Dynasties and Rulers Mentioned
Notes
Bibliography
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
History and Material Culture
Conceptual and Theoretical
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