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Objects of translation: material culture and medieval "Hindu-Muslim" encounter
Finbarr Barry Flood
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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgments (page xi)
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A Note on Translations and Transliterations (page xv)
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Introduction (page 1)
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Roots or Routes? (page 1)
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Networks, Translation, and Transculturation (page 5)
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Things and Texts (page 9)
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1 The Mercantile Cosmopolis (page 15)
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Polyglot Frontiers and Permeable Boundaries (page 15)
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Gifts, Idolatry, and the Political Economy (page 26)
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Heteropraxy, Taxonomy, and Traveling Orthography (page 37)
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2 Cultural Cross-dressing (page 61)
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Prestigious Imitation (page 61)
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Fractal Kingship and Royal Castoffs (page 75)
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The Raja's Finger and the Sultan's Belt (page 84)
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3 Accomodating the Infidel
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Sunni Internationalism and the Ghurid Interlude (page 89)
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From King of the Mountains to the Second Alexander (page 93)
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Homology, Ambiguity, and the Rule of Śrī Hammīra (page 107)
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4 Looking at Loot (page 121)
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Signs of Sovereignty (page 121)
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Looting and Difference (page 123)
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Trophies and Transculturation (page 126)
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5 Remaking Monuments (page 137)
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Taxonomies, Anomalies, and Visual Pidgin (page 137)
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Rupture and Reinscription (page 152)
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Noble Chambers and Translated Stones (page 160)
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Patrons and Masons (page 184)
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Markets, Mobility, and Intentional Hybridity (page 189)
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6 Palimpsest Pasts and Fictive Genealogies (page 227)
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A World within a World (page 227)
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Monuments and Memory (page 247)
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The Fate of Hammīra (page 255)
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Conclusion: In and Out of Place (page 261)
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Appendix: Principal Dynasties and Rulers Mentioned (page 269)
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Notes (page 271)
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Bibliography (page 311)
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Index (page 353)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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SP | 87.4 (Oct. 2012): 1195-1196 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/23488656 |
BSOAS | 73.1 (2010): 115-116 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/25702996 |
W86 | 18.1 (Spring-Summer 2011): 97-99 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/659386 |
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Published: 2009
Publisher: Princeton University Press
- 9781400833245 (ebook)
- 9780691125947 (hardcover)
- 9780691180748 (paper)