
Published online:
22 June 2017
Published in print:
27 July 2017
Online ISBN:
9780190457617
Print ISBN:
9780190457594
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2.1. The Vernacular and the Secular in Early Modern Indian Literature 2.1. The Vernacular and the Secular in Early Modern Indian Literature
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2.2. From Poetry to Prose: The Case of the Karaṇam in South India 2.2. From Poetry to Prose: The Case of the Karaṇam in South India
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2.3. The Case of the Munshī in Mughal India 2.3. The Case of the Munshī in Mughal India
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2.4. Reason and Secularity: The Court of Jehangir and the Age of Reason 2.4. Reason and Secularity: The Court of Jehangir and the Age of Reason
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Chapter
2 Looking Backward: Reason, Cosmopolitan Consciousness, and the Emergence of Indian Modernity
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20–38
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Published:June 2017
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Bhushan, Nalini, and Jay L. Garfield, 'Looking Backward: Reason, Cosmopolitan Consciousness, and the Emergence of Indian Modernity', Minds Without Fear: Philosophy in the Indian Renaissance, The Oxford History of Philosophy (New York , 2017; online edn, Oxford Academic, 22 June 2017), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190457594.003.0003, accessed 7 May 2025.
Abstract
This chapter shows that the colonial period is continuous in important respects with premodern periods. It also shows that there is nothing special about English as a foreign language and that philosophy and other important intellectual literature was produced not only in Sanskrit but also in imported and Indian vernacular languages for much of Indian history.
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