The Language of the Gods in the World of Men: Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in Premodern India - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520260030ISBN-10:520260031UPC:9780520260030Book Category:History, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Asia, AsianBook Topic:SouthSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 1.40 inchesWeight:2.101Product ID:SC9R8QKRC3
The Language of the Gods in the World of Men: Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in Premodern India
In this work of impressive scholarship, Sheldon Pollock explores the remarkable rise and fall of Sanskrit, India's ancient language, as a vehicle of poetry and polity. He traces the two great moments of its transformation: the first around the beginning of the Common Era, when Sanskrit, long a sacred language, was reinvented as a code for literary and political expression, the start of an amazing...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520260030ISBN-10:520260031UPC:9780520260030Book Category:History, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Asia, AsianBook Topic:SouthSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 1.40 inchesWeight:2.101Product ID:SC9R8QKRC3
Sheldon Pollock is William B. Ransford Professor of Sanskrit and South Asian Studies at Columbia University, and former George V. Bobrinskoy Distinguished Service Professor at The University of Chicago. His previous publications include Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia (California, 2003), Cosmopolitanism (2002, with Homi Bhabha et al.), and The Ramayana of Valmiki,...
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