TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pollock,Sheldon I.
TI  - The language of the gods in the world of men: Sanskrit, culture, and power in premodern India
SN  - 8178242753
U1  - 891.209 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Ranikhet
PB  - Permanent Black
KW  - Sanskrit literature
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Indic literature
KW  - History
KW  - Politics and literature
KW  - India
KW  - Literature and society
N1  - "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
ER  -