TY - BOOK AU - Pollock, Sheldon TI - Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia: : Explorations in the Intellectual History of India and Tibet, 1500-1800 SN - 9788173049170 U1 - 954 PY - 2011/// CY - New Delhi PB - Manohar Publishers & Distributors KW - History N1 - This pioneering collection of essays helps to rectify this situation by addressing the ways thinkers in India and Tibet responded to a rapidly changing world in the three centuries prior to 18. Contributors examine new forms of communication and conceptions of power that developed across the subcontinent changing modes of literacy consciousness, practices, and institutions in north India, unprecedented engagements in comparative religion, autobiography and ethnography in the Indo-Persian sphere; and new direction in disciplinarity, medicine and geography in Tibet ER -