Preface Introduction I. Objects, Spaces and Practices I.1. The Book as an object circulating in space I.2. The Rebel Book of the Veda II. The Veda Before Print II.1 The Beginnings: the travelling Veda II.

2 The living libraries: the memorized Veda II.3 Performance and spectacle: The ritual Veda II.4 Scribes and scripture: the handwritten Veda II.5. The Veda commented upon II.5.1. The imperial commentary II.

6 The Veda in the empire of writing III.The Coming of Print to Indian Subcontinent III.1 The Missionary, the Government and the Commercial Printers III.2 Preachers, printers and Pundits III.2.1The Jesuit printers of the western coast III.2.2 German Danish Evangelists on the Coromandel Coast III.

2.3 The media revolution of Serampore 1800 -1837 III.2.4 Later Missionary print cultures III.3 The Empire in print and the Ethnographic State III.3.1 The Infernal machine III.3.

2 The Government Press and imperial typography III.3.3 Print, catalogues and native knowledge III.3.4 The ethnographic state in print III.4 Indian Commercial Printing after 1835 (New Beginnings) IV.The Printed Veda IV.1 The lost, imagined and recovered Veda IV.

2. The Philological Veda IV.3. The Imperial Veda IV.3.1. Max Muller and his patrons IV.4.

The Printed Veda for Paitas and Pundits IV.5. The Veda printed in India IV.5.1 The polluting ink IV.5.2 Whose is the printed Veda IV.5.

3. The codex and the pothi V. The reading practices V.1. The cultural concepts and practices of reading V.1.1 The svadhyaya and the brahma-yajña V.1.

2 brahmavidya-dana V.1.3 The vidhana tradition V.2. The regional practices of reading the Veda V.2.1 Modus legendi: dasagrantha V.2.

2 Modus legendi: the veda-parayaa V.2.3 Modus legendi: the trisandha VI. Towards Social history of print cultures in colonial India VI.1. Printing revolution and social change VI.2 Publishing Indian Religions in Print VI.2.

1 Printing and Appropriation of the past VI.3 The regional print cultures and the Veda ABBREVIATIONS REFERENCES INDEX.