Mudit Trivedi
Biographic Data
| ID | 4895548 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mudit Trivedi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mudit |
| FAMILY NAME | Trivedi |
| SIGNATURE | TRIVEDI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7807-9634 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Difficulty of Impossibility
To read Ibn Khaldun and the Social Sciences is to be educated in what I’ll explore here as the difficulty of impossibility. Javad Tabatabai’s discourse prods, rebukes, and opens out, in the manner of a khulasa (an exegetical oral discourse), layered, heightened senses of impossibility. Foremost are the “conditions of im-possibility”: this “method” (xxxi) grapples with how modernity and reason epistemically bloom out of one (European) Renaissance …
Genealogies of Din, Archaeologies of Iman
This article reconsiders “conversion” or “Islamization” as the embodied and affective grasping and embrace of din, foregrounding the docility, disciplines, and dependence upon others crucial to converts’ quests of learning their new faith. Where textual accounts of converts are few and adversarial, this article turns to the recently documented archaeological assemblages of a qasba, Indor, built by the newly faithful and inhabited from the fourtee…
Glass Bangles in South Asia
Introduction
Between Archaeography and Historiography
Do archaeology and history refer to the same real past? Their relationship has been understood primarily as epistemic, as one of the distinct techniques for knowing different aspects or epochs of the past. When archaeologies of more familiar, historical, medieval pasts are conducted, why do these accounts enthusiastically find and lose, provoke and distress, their specialist kin; or why do historiography and archaeography relate uneasily? This ar…
On Taking from Others
The Indian Treasure Trove Act of 1878 is understood as a landmark legislative victory in the preservation of South Asian material pasts. This paper presents a detailed archival history recounting how archaeologists themselves were crucial to the promulgation of the Act and the authors of its specific provisions. It demonstrates how arguments for the reform of royal prerogative into an instrument for the discipline were born in mid-nineteenth-cent…
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On Taking from Others
The Indian Treasure Trove Act of 1878 is understood as a landmark legislative victory in the preservation of South Asian material pasts. This paper presents a detailed archival history recounting how archaeologists themselves were crucial to the promulgation of the Act and the authors of its specific provisions. It demonstrates how arguments for the reform of royal prerogative into an instrument for the discipline were born in mid-nineteenth-cent…
Glass Bangles in South Asia
Introduction
Between Archaeography and Historiography
Do archaeology and history refer to the same real past? Their relationship has been understood primarily as epistemic, as one of the distinct techniques for knowing different aspects or epochs of the past. When archaeologies of more familiar, historical, medieval pasts are conducted, why do these accounts enthusiastically find and lose, provoke and distress, their specialist kin; or why do historiography and archaeography relate uneasily? This ar…
The Difficulty of Impossibility
To read Ibn Khaldun and the Social Sciences is to be educated in what I’ll explore here as the difficulty of impossibility. Javad Tabatabai’s discourse prods, rebukes, and opens out, in the manner of a khulasa (an exegetical oral discourse), layered, heightened senses of impossibility. Foremost are the “conditions of im-possibility”: this “method” (xxxi) grapples with how modernity and reason epistemically bloom out of one (European) Renaissance …
Genealogies of Din, Archaeologies of Iman
This article reconsiders “conversion” or “Islamization” as the embodied and affective grasping and embrace of din, foregrounding the docility, disciplines, and dependence upon others crucial to converts’ quests of learning their new faith. Where textual accounts of converts are few and adversarial, this article turns to the recently documented archaeological assemblages of a qasba, Indor, built by the newly faithful and inhabited from the fourtee…
Archaeology (4 works) · History (4 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Archaeological Research and Protection (2 works) · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation (2 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (2 works)