This essay engages with two large themes in order to address the social and intellectual practices of nyāya scholars in early colonial Bengal. First, I examine networks that connected scholars with each other and, to a lesser extent, students and households. Exemplified in historical documents of the period, these networks demonstrate that nyāya scholars were part of larger scholar communities in Bengal and across India during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. I map these networks and examine their relevance for how nyāya scholars were organized in early colonial Bengal. Second, I examine circulation patterns of manuscripts of nyāya texts composed in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Bengal. I argue that a contraction in the distribution of nyāya manuscripts of works written in Bengal during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries took place, especially into southern India. The essay concludes by situating nyāya scholars within the context of colonialism and drawing larger conclusions about nyāya intellectual practices in Bengal during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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孟加拉早期殖民地 Nyāya-śāstra 的学者网络和手稿经济

本文涉及两个大主题，以解决早期殖民孟加拉的 nyāya 学者的社会和知识实践。首先，我研究了将学者彼此联系起来的网络，在较小程度上将学生和家庭联系起来。在那个时期的历史文献中，这些网络表明 nyāya 学者是 18 世纪和 19 世纪孟加拉和印度各地更大的学者社区的一部分。我绘制了这些网络的地图，并研究了它们与 nyāya 学者在早期殖民孟加拉邦如何组织的相关性。其次，我考察了 18 世纪和 19 世纪孟加拉语写的 nyāya 文本手稿的流通模式。我认为 nyāya 手稿在 18 世纪和 19 世纪用孟加拉写成的作品的发行量有所减少，尤其是在印度南部。本文最后将 nyāya 学者置于殖民主义的背景下，并对 18 和 19 世纪孟加拉的 nyāya 知识实践得出更大的结论。