[INDOLOGY] Request for help - materiality of texts and textual production

[Madhav Deshpande]

There is also a history of the Nirnayasagar Press, but it is written in
Marathi.

Madhav M. Deshpande
Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies
Adjunct Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India

[Residence: Campbell, California, USA]


On Mon, Aug 12, 2024 at 6:26 AM Jonathan Peterson via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Hi Taylor,
>
> I’m not sure this is what you’re looking for, but a quick list might
> include:
>
> *Aspects of Manuscript Culture in South India*, ed. Jan Houben and Saraju
> Rath (Leiden: Brill, 2012).
>
> *Indic Manuscript Cultures Through the Ages: Material, Textual, and
> Historical Investigations*, ed. Vincenzo Vergiani, Daniele Cuneo, and
> Camillo Alessio Formigatti (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017).
>
> D. B. Diskalkar’s old but useful *Material Used for Indian Epigraphical
> Records* (Poona: Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, 1979).
>
> Sanskrit studies lags far behind the study of print culture and book
> history, but Ulrike Stark’s *An Empire of Books: The Naval Kishore Press
> and the Diffusion of the Printed World in Colonial India *(New Delhi:
> Permanent Black, 2007) is a must-read for anyone interested in the subject
> in a South Asian context. One can easily imagine a similar study for the
> Nirnaya Sagara, Chaukhamba, Anandashrama presses or other major Sanskrit
> publishers. Finbarr Flood’s *Objects of Translation* is one of the high
> water marks for the theory of materiality and book culture in second
> millennium SA, albeit in a Persianate context. Alexander O’Neill at SOAS
> wrote a dissertation on pustakapuja in the Newar context and would surely
> have much to contribute on the materiality of the book in ritual contexts.
> There’s lots of stuff of manuscript cultures and practices of writing, as
> you note.
>
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Jonathan Peterson
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies
> Columbia University
>
>
>
> On Aug 12, 2024, at 8:00 AM, indology-request at list.indology.info wrote:
>
> Request for help - materiality of texts and textual
>      production
>
>
>
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