Kingdoms of Memory, Empires of Ink: The Veda and the Regional Print Cultures of Colonial India Galewicz Cezary
Kingdoms of Memory, Empires of Ink: The Veda and the Regional Print Cultures of Colonial India Galewicz Cezary The backbone of this book on books is a history of a most unusual concept of the book…
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Kingdoms of Memory, Empires of Ink: The Veda and the Regional Print Cultures of Colonial India Galewicz Cezary
The backbone of this book on books is a history of a most unusual concept of the book that developed in South Asia with reference to the Veda... They variously fed on regional patterns of communication, configurations of power, patronage, and a new economic regime. By the 19th century, regional cultures of print showed an uneven and spatially discontinuous development across the Indian subcontinent.
The period witnessed a general shift of knowledge-production sites and relocation of distribution and text-circulation networks towards new urban centres.... Their development formed part of tremendous transformations in the structures of power, statecraft, authority, and communication that the subcontinent was going through while being gradually absorbed into the globalizing orbit of the emerging British Empire. This book tries to understand how the emerging regional cultures of print