The language of the gods in the world of men: Sanskrit, culture, and power in premodern India / Sheldon Pollock.
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TextPublication details: Ranikhet : Permanent Black, c2006Description: xv, 684 p. : maps ; 24 cmISBN: 8178242753Subject(s): Sanskrit literature -- Political aspects | Sanskrit literature -- History and criticism | Indic literature -- History | Indic literature -- Political aspects | Politics and literature -- India -- History | Literature and society -- India -- HistoryDDC classification: 891.209 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section | 891.209 POL/L (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | P33899 |
"Philip E. Lilienthal Asian studies imprint."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 603-648) and index.
Ch. 1. The language of the Gods enters the world -- Ch. 2. Literature and the cosmopolitan language of literature -- Ch. 3. The world conquest and regime of the cosmopolitan style -- Ch. 4. Sanskrit culture as courtly practice -- Ch. 5. The map of Sanskrit knowledge and the discourse on the ways of literature -- Ch. 6. Political formations and cultural ethos -- Ch. 7. A European countercosmopolis -- Ch. 8. Beginnings, textualization, superposition -- Ch. 9. Creating a regional world : the case of Kannada -- Ch. 10. Vernacular poetries and politics in Southern Asia -- Ch. 11. Europe vernacularized -- Ch. 12. Comparative and connective vernacularization -- Ch. 13. Actually existing theory and its discontents -- Ch. 14. Indigenism and other culture-power concepts of modernity -- Epilogue. From cosmopolitan-or-vernacular to cosmopolitan-and-vernacular.
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