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Author Pollock, Sheldon I, author
Title The Language of the gods in the world of men : Sanskrit, culture, and power in premodern India / Sheldon Pollock
Imprint Berkeley : University of California Press, 2006
©2006
Edition First edition
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 Central Lib, Floor 3  891.209 P776L 2006    LOOK ON SHELF
Descript xv, 684 pages : maps ; 24 cm
text rdacontent
unmediated rdamedia
volume rdacarrier
Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references (pages 603-648) and index
Contents The language of the Gods enters the world -- Literature and the cosmopolitan -- The world conquest and regime of the cosmopolitan style -- Sanskrit culture as courtly practice -- The map of Sanskrit knowledge and the discourse on the ways of literature -- Political formations and cultural ethos -- A European countercosmopolis -- Beginnings, textualization, superposition -- Creating a regional world: the case of Kannada -- Vernacular poetries and politics in Southern Asia -- Comparative and connective vernacularization -- Actually existing theory and its discontents -- Indigenism and other culture-power concepts of modernity
Subject Sanskrit literature -- To 1500 -- Political aspects
Sanskrit literature -- To 1500 -- History and criticism
Indic literature -- To 1500 -- History
Indic literature -- To 1500 -- Political aspects
Politics and literature -- India -- History
Literature and society -- India -- History
ISBN 9780520260030
Call # 891.209 P776L 2006
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