Reviews
"The essays contribute to a wide range of debates and issues in Asian studies - broadly interpretative and specifically detailed - that demand attention, if not agreement, from scholars in many disciplines...They offer not only new readings but, crucially, new ways of reading and understandingtexts and the history of practices in South Asia. I recommend the book...as a demanding yet stimulating contribution."--Ian Kerr, University of Manitoba for History, "This volume is an important, groundbreaking work challenging how we read and understand texts. . . . This is must reading for those engaged in the struggle to understand the deeper past or disheartened by radical deconstruction of texts to the point that signifiers 'float,' meaning everything and nothing."--Stewart Gordon, University of Michigan, "This volume is an important, groundbreaking work challenging how we read and understand texts. . . . This is must reading for those engaged in the struggle to understand the deeper past or disheartened by radical deconstruction of texts to the point that signifiers 'float,' meaning everything and nothing."--Stewart Gordon, University of Michigan"The essays contribute to a wide range of debates and issues in Asian studies - broadly interpretative and specifically detailed - that demand attention, if not agreement, from scholars in many disciplines...They offer not only new readings but, crucially, new ways of reading and understanding texts and the history of practices in South Asia. I recommend the book...as a demanding yet stimulating contribution."--Ian Kerr, University of Manitoba for History"This volume is an important, groundbreaking work challenging how we read and understand texts. . . . This is must reading for those engaged in the struggle to understand the deeper past or disheartened by radical deconstruction of texts to the point that signifiers 'float,' meaning everything and nothing."--Stewart Gordon, University of Michigan, "This volume is an important, groundbreaking work challenging how we readand understand texts. . . . This is must reading for those engaged in thestruggle to understand the deeper past or disheartened by radical deconstructionof texts to the point that signifiers 'float,' meaning everything andnothing."--Stewart Gordon, University of Michigan, "This volume is an important, groundbreaking work challenging how we read and understand texts. . . . This is must reading for those engaged in the struggle to understand the deeper past or disheartened by radical deconstruction of texts to the point that signifiers 'float,' meaning everythingand nothing."--Stewart Gordon, University of Michigan, Stimulating, challenging and important ... this is a book which historians of medieval India will find difficult to ignore ... Like this book, the medieval is at once fascinating, infuriating, illuminating, perplexing, seminal and irrelevant. We can never be done with it, however much we try., "The essays contribute to a wide range of debates and issues in Asianstudies - broadly interpretative and specifically detailed - that demandattention, if not agreement, from scholars in many disciplines...They offer notonly new readings but, crucially, new ways of reading and understanding textsand the history of practices in South Asia. I recommend the book...as ademanding yet stimulating contribution."--Ian Kerr, University of Manitoba forHistory, "This volume is an important, groundbreaking work challenging how we read and understand texts. . . . This is must reading for those engaged in the struggle to understand the deeper past or disheartened by radical deconstruction of texts to the point that signifiers 'float,' meaning everything and nothing."--Stewart Gordon,University of Michigan, The book will prove stimulating for anyone interested in the relationships between texts, the contexts in which texts are produced and which texts affect, and the use of texts to write history.