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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.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2006]
©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 684 pages) : maps
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Note "Philip E. Lilienthal Asian studies imprint."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 603-648) and index.
Contents Cover -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: The Sanskrit Cosmopolis -- 1. The Language of the Gods Enters the World -- 2. Literature and the Cosmopolitan Language of Literature -- 3. The World Conquest and Regime of the Cosmopolitan Style -- 4. Sanskrit Culture as Courtly Practice -- 5. The Map of Sanskrit Knowledge and the Discourse on the Ways of Literature -- 6. Political Formations and Cultural Ethos -- 7. A European Countercosmopolis -- Part II: The Vernacular Millennium -- 8. Beginnings, Textualization, Superposition -- 9. Creating a Regional World -- 10. Vernacular Poetries and Polities in Southern Asia -- 11. Europe Vernacularized -- 12. Comparative and Connective Vernacularisation -- Part III: Theory and Practice of Culture and Power -- 13. Actually Existing Theory and Its Discontents -- 14. Indigenism and Other Culture-Power Concepts of Modernity -- Epilogue -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Publication History -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary Exploring the rise and fall of Sanskrit as a vehicle of poetry and polity, this title traces the two great moments of its transformation. Drawing parallels with the rise of Latin literature and the Roman empire, it asks whether these very different histories challenge theories of culture and power and suggest possibilities for practice.
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Subject Sanskrit literature -- To 1500 -- Political aspects.
Sanskrit literature.
Chronological Term To 1500
Subject Sanskrit literature -- To 1500 -- History and criticism.
Indic literature -- To 1500 -- History.
Indic literature.
History.
Indic literature -- To 1500 -- Political aspects.
Politics and literature -- India -- History.
Politics and literature.
India.
Literature and society -- India -- History.
Literature and society.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Pollock, Sheldon I. Language of the gods in the world of men. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2006 0520245008 (DLC) 2005013461 (OCoLC)60349001
ISBN 9780520932029 (electronic book)
0520932021 (electronic book)
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