Encounters of the Brahmanical Sanskrit Tradition with Persian Scholarship in the Mughal Empire

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Michael Bergunder
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Within the scope of global religious history, a Foucauldian genealogical critique makes “history” itself the central focus of inquiry. Genealogy is usually perceived as a methodology for historicizing general concepts within religious studies, which seemingly favours post-nineteenth-century history – something that causes discomfort among pre-colonial researchers. However, this article presents genealogy as a general starting point for any critical historiography across all historical periods, emphasizing its key characteristic as a counter-history originating from the present. Through a case study, it demonstrates this approach’s practicality by offering a fresh perspective on the notion of an unchanging Sanskrit tradition championed by Hindu nationalists. Genealogical analysis exposes how contemporary research unwittingly reinforces this notion, while the article proposes a counter-narrative using sixteenth to eighteenth-century sources, revealing a dynamic interplay between Sanskrit and Persian scholars under Mughal rule in India. This case underscores the efficacy and adaptability of genealogical critique across all historical periods.
莫卧儿帝国婆罗门梵文传统与波斯学术的交锋
在全球宗教史的范围内,福柯的谱系学批判使 "历史 "本身成为研究的中心焦点。谱系学通常被视为宗教研究中将一般概念历史化的一种方法,似乎更偏向于 19 世纪后的历史--这在前殖民地时期的研究者中引起了不适。然而,本文将谱系学作为所有历史时期任何批判史学的一般出发点,强调其作为源于当下的反历史的关键特征。通过一个案例研究,本文对印度民族主义者所倡导的不变的梵语传统概念提出了全新的视角,从而证明了这种方法的实用性。家谱分析揭示了当代研究如何在不知不觉中强化了这一观念,而文章则利用 16 世纪到 18 世纪的资料提出了一种反叙述,揭示了印度莫卧儿王朝统治时期梵语和波斯语学者之间的动态互动。这一案例强调了家谱批评在各个历史时期的有效性和适应性。
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