Pollock, Sheldon I. <br/><br/>
The language of the gods in the world of men: Sanskrit, culture, and power in premodern India / 
Sheldon Pollock. 
 - Ranikhet :  Permanent Black,  c2006. 
 - xv, 684 p. :  maps ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/> "Philip E. Lilienthal Asian studies imprint." 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 603-648) and index. 
<br/><br/> The language of the Gods enters the world --  Literature and the cosmopolitan language of literature --  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 --  Europe vernacularized --  Comparative and connective vernacularization --  Actually existing theory and its discontents --  Indigenism and other culture-power concepts of modernity --  Epilogue. From cosmopolitan-or-vernacular to cosmopolitan-and-vernacular.  Ch. 1.  Ch. 2.  Ch. 3.  Ch. 4.  Ch. 5.  Ch. 6.  Ch. 7.  Ch. 8.  Ch. 9.  Ch. 10.  Ch. 11.  Ch. 12.  Ch. 13.  Ch. 14. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>8178242753 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Sanskrit literature--Political aspects.<br/>Sanskrit literature--History and criticism.<br/>Indic literature--History.<br/>Indic literature--Political aspects.<br/>Politics and literature--History.--India<br/>Literature and society--History.--India
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>891.209  / POL/L