Kingdoms of Memory, Empires of Ink: The Veda and the Regional Print Cultures of Colonial India

Cover
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
I. Objects, spaces and practices
	I.1. The book as an object circulating in space
	I.2. The rebel book of the Veda
II. The Veda before print
	II.1. The beginnings: the travelling Veda
	II.2. The living libraries: the memorized Veda
	II.3. Performance and spectacle: the ritual Veda
	II.4. Scribes and scripture: the handwritten Veda
	II.5. The Veda commented upon
	II.6. The Veda in the empire of writing
III. The coming of print to Indian subcontinent
	III.1. The missionary, the government and the commercialprinters
	III.2. Preachers, printers and pundits
	III.3. The Empire in print and the ethnographic state
	III.4. Indian commercial printing after 1835(new beginnings)
IV. The Printed Veda
	IV.1. The lost and the imagined Veda
	IV.2. The recovered and the philological Veda
	IV.3. The imperial Veda
	IV.4. The printed Veda for paṇḍitas and pundits
	IV.5. The Veda printed by Indians in India
V. Towards social history of print culturesin colonial India
	V.1. Printing revolution and social change
	V.2. Publishing Indian religions in print
	V.3. Regional print cultures and the Veda
	V.4. Towards a new understanding of reading cultures
Abbreviations
References
APPENDIX.
General index