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History of the Book in South Asia :: Mapping the Field :: Compiled by Pranav Prakash and Megan Eaton Robb
Ahearn, Laura M. 2001. “The Practices of Reading and Writing.” In: Invitations to Love: Literacy, Love Letters & Social Change in Nepal. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 191 – 211; 272 – 273. 

Blackburn, Stuart 
___. 2006. “Early Books and New Literary Practices, 1556 – 1800.” In: Print, Folklore, and Nationalism in Colonial South India. New Delhi: Permanent Black. 26 – 72; 198 – 204. 
___. 1988. Singing of Birth and Death: Texts in Performance. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 

Chatterjee, Rimi. 2006. ““Petrifactions of Bygone Ages”: The Sacred Books of the East.” In: Empires of the Mind: A History of the Oxford University Press in India under the Raj. Edited by Stuart Blackburn and Vasudha Dalmia. New Delhi: Permanent Black. 280 – 326. 

Cort, John E. 1995. “The Jain Knowledge Warehouses: Traditional Libraries in India,” Journal of the American Oriental Society 115: 77 – 87. 

Formigatti, Camillo Alessio 
___. 2016. “A forgotten Chapter in South Asian Book History? A Bird’s Eye View of Sanskrit Print Culture.” Tibetan Printing: Comparison, Continuities, and Change. Edited by Hildegard Diemberger, Franz-Karl Ehrhard, Peter Kornicki. Leiden: Brill. 72 – 134.
___. 2014. “Travelling Books.” Buddha’s Word: The Life of Books in Tibet and Beyond. Edited by Mark Elliott, Hildegard Diemberger and Michela Clemente. Cambridge: Museum of Archaelogy and Anthropology, University of Cambridge. 18 – 25. 
___. 2012. “Manuscript Studies: Crisis on Infinite Methods.” Rivista degli studi orientali. Vol. LXXXIV. 43 – 49. 

Fuller, C. J. and H. Narasimhan. 2010. "Traditional vocations and modern professions among Tamil Brahmans in colonial and post-colonial south India," Indian Economic and Social History Review 47.4: 473–496. 
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Ghosh, Anindita
___. 2018. “Literary Traditions in Pre-print Bengal and their Legacy in an Age of Print.” In: On Modern Indian Sensibilities: Culture, Politics, History. Edited by Ishita Banerjee-Dube and S. Gooptu. New Delhi: Routledge. 234–258.
___. 2013. “The Batala Book Market.” In: Power in Print: Popular Publishing and the Politics of Language and Culture in a Colonial Society, 1778 – 1905. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 107 – 151. 
___. 2006. Power in Print: Popular Publishing and the Politics of Language and Culture in a Colonial Society, 1778–1905. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 
___. 2006. “Identities Made in Print: Literary Bengali and its ‘Others.’ In: Beyond Representation: Colonial and Postcolonial Constructions of Indian Identity. Edited C. Bates. Oxford University Press. 

Guha, Sumit. 2010. "Serving the barbarian to preserve the dharma: The ideology and training of a clerical elite in Peninsular India c. 1300–1800," The Indian Economic and Social History Review 47.4: 494–525. 

Jones, Robert. 1987. “Piracy, war, and the acquisition of Arabic manuscripts in Renaissance Europe.” Manuscripts of the Middle East 2. Donkersteeg: Ter Lugt Press. 96 – 110.

Joshi, Priya. 2003. “Reading in the Public Eye: The Circulation of Fiction in Indian Libraries, c. 1835 – 1901.” In: India’s Literary History: Essays on the Nineteenth Century. New Delhi: Permanent Black. 280 – 326. 

Konishi, Masatoshi A. 2013. Hāth-Kāghaz: History of Handmade Paper in South Asia. Shimla: Institute of Advanced Studies; New Delhi: Aryan Books International. 

Kothari, Rita. 2006. “Publishers’ Perspective.” In: Translating India: the cultural politics of English. Manchester: St. Jerome Pubications. 58 – 68.
Losty, Jeremiah P. 1982. “Early Manuscript Illumination.” In: The Art of the Book in India. London: British Library. 18 – 26; Plates I – VII. 

Minkowski, Christopher. 2010. “Sanskrit Scientific Libraries and Their Uses: Examples and Problems of the Early Modern Period.” In: Looking at It from Asia: The Processes that Shaped the Sources of History of Science. Edited by F. Bretelle-Establet. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 265. Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 81 – 114. 

Novetzke, Christian Lee. 2008. “Orality and Literacy/Performance and Permanence.” In: Religion and Public Memory: A Cultural History of Saint Namdev in India. New York: Columbia University Press. 99 – 131; 263-5. 

Orsini, Francesca. 2002. “Journals, Publishing, and the Literary System.” In: The Hindi Public Sphere 1920 – 1940. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 51 – 80. 

Pinto, Rochelle. 2007. “The Domain of Konkani.” In: Between Empires: Print and Politics in Goa. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 223 – 259. 

Pollock, Sheldon. 2007. “Literary Culture and Manuscript Culture in Precolonial India.” In: Literary Cultures and the Material Book. Edited by Simon Eliot, Andrew Nash and Ian Willison. London: British Library. 77 – 94. 

Quenzer, Jörg B., Dmitry Bondarev, and Jan-Ulrich Sobisch, eds. 2014. Manuscript Cultures: Mapping the Field. Studies in Manuscript Cultures, Vol. 1. Edited by Michael Friedrich, Harunaga Isaacson, Jörg B. Quenzer. Berlin, Munich, and Boston: Walter de Gruyter. 

Salomon, Richard. 
___. 1998. Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. 
___. 1991. “Epigraphic Remains of Indian Traders in Egypt,” Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 111, No. 4 (October – December): 731 – 736. 

Servan-Schreiber, Catherine. 2007. “Singing Texts and Reading Chapbooks: the Bhojpuri Tradition,” Indian Folklore 24: 12-15. 

Shaw, Graham. 1998. “Calcutta: Birthplace of the Indian Lithographed Book,” Journal of the Printing Historical Society 27: 89 – 111. 

Stark, Ulrike 
___. 2007. “The Coming of the Book in Hindi and Urdu.” In: An Empire of Books. New Delhi: Permanent Black. 29 – 83; 536 – 9. 
___. 2007. “An Indian Success Story: The House of Naval Kishore.” In: An Empire of Books. New Delhi: Permanent Black. 164 – 224. 

Venkatchalapathy, A. R. 
___. 2012. “Readers, Reading Practices, Modes of Reading.” In: The Province of the Book: Scholars, Scribes, and Scribblers in Colonial Tamilnadu. New Delhi: Permanent Black. 208 – 242. 
___. 2012. “Epilogue: Exaggerated Obituaries?” In: The Province of the Book: Scholars, Scribes, and Scribblers in Colonial Tamilnadu. New Delhi: Permanent Black. 243 – 53. 
Book History in Tibet and the Himalayas:: Recommendations by Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa
Cantwell, Cathy. 2012. "Seeing, touching, holding and swallowing Tibetan Buddhist texts," Postscripts 8.1-2: 137-160.    

Childs, Geoff. 2005. “How to Fund a Ritual: Notes on the Social Usage of the Kanjur (Bka’ ’gyur) in a Tibetan Village,” Tibet Journal30.2 (Summer): 41-48.    

Cüppers, Christoph. 2010. “Some Remarks on Bka’ ’gyur Production in 17th-century Tibet,”  in Edition, éditions: l’écrit au Tibet, évolution er devenir, edited by Anne Chayet, Cristina Scherrer-Schaub, Françoise Robin, and Jean-Luc Achard. München: Indus Verlag, 115–128.

Diemberger, Hildegard, Karl Ehrhard and Peter Kornicky, eds. 2016. Tibetan Printing: Comparisons, continuity and change, Leiden: Brill. 

Diemberger, Hildegard. 2017. "Buddhist Books on Trans-Himalayan Pathways," in Dan Smyer-Yu and Jean Michaud (eds.) Trans-Himalayan Borderlands, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 105-124.   

Diemberger, Hildegard. 2011. “Holy Books as Ritual Objects and Vessels of Teaching in the Eta of the ‘Further Spread of the Doctrine’ (Bstan pa yang dar),” in Revisiting Rituals in a Changing Tibetan World, Katie Buffetrille (ed.). Leiden: Brill.

Diemberger, Hildegard. 2007. When a Woman Becomes a Religious Dynasty. New York: Columbia University Press.

Gellner, David. 2003. “‘The Perfection of Wisdom’: A Text and its Uses in Kwa Bahah, Lalitpur,” in The Anthropology of Buddhism and Hinduism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 186-187.    

Gyatso, Ribur Ngawang. 1984. "A Short History of the Tibetan Script," The Tibet Journal  9.2: 28-30.  

Helman-Ważny, Agnieszka. 2014. The Archaeology of Tibetan Books. Leiden: Brill.

Kim, Jinah. 2013. Receptacle of the Sacred: Illustrated Manuscripts and the Buddhist Book Cult in South Asia. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Roche, Gerald. 2017. "The transformation of Tibet’s language ecology in the twenty-first century," The International Journal of the Sociology of Language 245: 1-35. 

Schaeffer, Kurtis. 2009. The Culture of the Book in Tibet, New York: Columbia University Press.  

Trier, Jesper. 1972. Ancient Paper of Nepal, Copenhagen: Jutland Library Archaeological Publications.    

Trinlé, Dungkar Lobzang and Gonkatsang, Tsering Dhundup (2016), "Tibetan Woodblock Printing: An Ancient Art and Craft," HIMALAYA 36(1). 
van Schaik, Sam. 2015. “Manuscripts and Printing: Tibet,” in Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism, Volume 1: Literature and Languages, edited by Jonathan A. Silk, 959–67. Leiden: Brill. ​
Persian Manuscripts and Scribal Communities in South Asia :: Compiled by Pranav Prakash
Ådahl, K. 1981. A Khamsa of Nizāmī of 1439. Upsal: Almqvist & Wiksell International. 

Alam, Muzaffar, and Sanjay Subrahmanyam. 2004. “The Making of a Munshi,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 24.2: 61-72.

Āq-Qalʿeh, ʿAlī Ṣafarī. 2011 (1390). Noskheh-Shenākht: Pazhuheshnāmeh-ye Noskheh Shenāsi-ye Noskheh-khaṭṭi-ye Fārsi. Tehran: Markaz-e Pazhuheshi Mirās̱-e Maktub. 

Brend, Barbara. 
___. 2010. Muhammad Juki’s Shahnamah of Firdausi. London: Royal Asiatic Society. 
___. 1986. “The British Library’s Shahnama of 1438 as a Sultanate Manuscript.” In: Facets of Indian Art. London: The Museum. 87-93. 

Chaghataï, Muhammad Abdulla. 1963. Painting During the Sultanate Period (C.E. 712–1575). Lahore: Kitab Khana-i Nauras. 

Chandra, M. 1970. Studies in Early Indian Painting. Mumbai: Asia Publishing House. 

Chatterjee, Kukum. 2010. “Scribal Elites in Sultanate and Mughal Bengal,” The Indian Economic and Social History Review 47.4: 445-472. 

Cromwell, Jennifer, and Eitan Grossman. 2018. Scribal Repertoires in Egypt from the New Kingdom to the Early Islamic Period. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 

de la Perrière, Éloïse Brac.
___. 2009. “Les tuniques talismaniques indiennes d’époque pré-moghole et moghole à la lumière d’un group de Coran en écriture bihârî,” Journal Asiatique 1: 57-81. 
___. 2008. L’Art du livre dans l’Inde des sultanats. Paris: Presses de l’Université Paris-Sorbonne. 
___. 2003. “Bihârî et naskhî-dîwânî: remarques sur deux calligraphies de l’Inde des Sultanats.” In: Écriture, calligraphie et peinture. Edited by A. L. Udovitch and H. Touati. Studia Islamica 96: 81-93. 
___. 2001. “Les Manuscrits à peintures dan l’Inde des sultanats: l’exemple de la Khamsa disperse d’Amir Khosrow Dehlavi, c. 1450,” Arts Asiatiques 56: 35-36. 

Déroche, François. 2000. Manuel de codicologie des manuscrits en caractères arabes. Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale. 

Digby, Simon. 1967. “The Literary Evidence for Painting in the Delhi Sultanate,” Bulletin of the American Academy of Benares 1: 47-58.

Goswami, B. N. 
___. 1988. A Jainesque Sultanate Shahnama and the Context of Pre-Mughal Painting in India. Museum Rietbern Zürich.
___. 1986. “In the Sultan’s Shadow: Pre-Mughal Painting in and around Delhi.” In: Delhi Through the Ages: Essays in Urban History, Culture and Society. Delhi: Oxford University Press. 129-42.  

Gray, Basil. 1981. “The Lahore Laur-Chandā Pages Thirty Years After,” Chhavi 2: 5-9. 

Gupta, P. L. 1981. “The Berlin Chandāyan Codex,” Chhavi 2: 305-307. 

Haase, Claus-Peter, Jens Kröger, and Ursula Lienert. 1993. Oriental Splendour: Islamic Art from German Private Collections. Hamburg: Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe. 

Hadler, Paul.
___. 1990. “Kolloquium “Bibliothekarisches Erbe und Wissenschafts-geschichte“ an der Universitätsbibliothek Greifswald,” Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen 104.3: 118.
___. 1981. Islamic Heritage of India: Special Exhibition to Honour the 1400th Anniversary of the Hijra Era. New Delhi: National Museum. 

Jahānbakhsh, Juyā. 2012 (1390). Rāhnumā-ye Taṣḥīḥ-e Motun-e Fārsi. Third Edition. Tehran: Daftar-e Nashr-e Mīrās̱-e Maktub. 

Khalidi, Omar. 2003. “A Guide Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Urdu Manuscript Libraries in India,” MELA Notes, No. 75/76 (Fall 2002—Spring 2003): 1–59. 

Khandalavala, K., and M. Chandra. 1969. New Documents of Indian Painting: A Reappraisal. Mumbai: Princes of Wales Museum. 

Kinra, Rajiv.
___. 2015. Writing Self, Writing Empire: Chandar Bhan Brahman and the Cultural World of the Indo-Persian State Secretary. Oakland, California: University of California Press. 
___. 2010. “Master and Munshī: A brahman secretary’s guide to Mughal governance,” The Indian Economic and Social History Review 47.4: 527-561.  

Losty, Jeremiah P. 1982. The Art of the Book in India. London: British Library.

Māyel-Heravi, Najib. 2001 (1379). Tārikh-e Noskhe-pardāzi va Taṣḥiḥ-e Inteqādi-ye Noskhe-hā-ye Khaṭṭi. Tehran: Bahārestān. 


Nath, N., and K. Khandalavala. 1983. “Illustrated Islamic Manuscripts.” In: An Age of Splendour: Islamic Art in India. Mumbai: Marg Publications. 34-51.  

Naẓari, Maḥmud, ed. 2008 (1386). Majmūʿi Maqālāt-e Ravish-hā. Vol. 1. Tehran: Dāneshgāh-i Tehrān, Ketābkhāneh-ye Markazī va Markaz-e Asnād. 

O’Hanlon, Rosalind. 2010. “The social worth of scribes: Brahmins, Kāyasthas and the social order in early modern India,” The Indian Economic and Social History Review 47.4: 563-595. 

Porter, Ives.
___. 2018. “Cultural Distortions in the Study of Iranian Art.” Smart Lecture, Department of History, University of Chicago. Unpublished lecture.  
___. 2009. “The Illustrations of the Three Poems of Khwājū Kirmānī: A Turning Point in the Composition of Persian Painting.” In: Writing and Culture in Central Asia and the Turko-Iranian World, 10th–19th Centuries. Paris: Association Pour L’Avancement Des Études Iraniennes. 359-374. 
___. 1994. Painters, Paintings and Books: An Essay on Indo-Persian Technical Literature, 12th–19th Centuries. Translated by S. Butani. New Delhi: Manohar. 

Richard, Francis. 1996. “Les manuscripts persan d’origine indienne à la Bibliothèque Nationale,” Revue del Bibliothèque Nationale 19: 30–45.  

Seyller, J. 2001. Pearls of the Parrot of India: The Walters Art Museum of Amīr Khusraw of Delhi. Baltimore: The Walters Art Museum. 

Shafiʿi-Kadkani, Muḥammad-Reżā. 2005 (1383). “Naqsh-e Ideolozhik-e Noskhe Badal-hā,” Bahārestān 1.2(9-10): 93-110. 

Sims-Williams, Ursula. 1981. “The Arabic and Persian Collections in the India Office Library.” In: Collections in British Libraries on Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. Durham, UK. 47–52. 

Skelton, R. 1959. “The Niʿmat nama: A Landmark in Malwa Painting,” Marg 12.23 (June 1959): 44-50. 

Stchoukine, Ivan. 1969. “Origine indienne d’un manuscrit persa achevé en 844 A.H.,” Syria. Paris: Librarie orientaliste Paul Geuthner 46: 105-114. 

Thomas, David. 2016. “Ghurid Sultanate.” The Encyclopedia of Empire. John Wiley & Sons.

Titley, Norah. 
___, tr. 2005. The Niʿmatnama Manuscript of the Sultans of Mandu: The Sultan’s Book of Delights. London: Routledge. 
___. 1983. Persian Miniature Painting and its Influence on the Arts of Turkey and India. British Library. 163-185. 

Welch, Stuart Cary, and Milo Cleveland Beach. 1965. Gods, Thrones, and Peacocks: Northern Indian Painting from Two Traditions: Fifteenth to Nineteenth Centuries. New York: H. N. Abrams. 

Witkam, Jan Just. 2013. “The human element between text and reader: The Ijāza in Arabic manuscripts.” In: The History of the Book in the Middle East. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing. 89-112. 

​Zebrowski, M.
___. 1986. “Painting.” In: Islamic Heritage of the Deccan. Mumbai: Marg Publications. 92-109. 
___. 1983. Deccani Painting. London: Sotheby Publications. 
___. 1981. “Transformations in Seventeenth Century Deccani Painting at Bijapur,” Chhavi 2: 170-181.  
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