First Words, Last Words: New Theories for Reading Old Texts in Sixteenth-Century India

by Yigal Bronner and Lawrence Mccrea

First Words, Last Words charts an intense "pamphlet war" that took place in sixteenth-century South India. Yigal Bronner and Lawrence McCrea explore this controversy as a case study in the dynamics of innovation in early modern India, a time of great intellectual innovation. This debate took place within the traditional discourses of Vedic Hermeneutics, or Mīmāṃsā, and its increasingly influential sibling discipline of Vedānta,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197583474
• ISBN13: 9780197583470
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.6"