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_bPOL/L
100 1 _aPollock, Sheldon I.
245 1 4 _aThe language of the gods in the world of men: Sanskrit, culture, and power in premodern India /
_cSheldon Pollock.
260 _aRanikhet :
_bPermanent Black,
_cc2006.
300 _axv, 684 p. :
_bmaps ;
_c24 cm.
500 _a"Philip E. Lilienthal Asian studies imprint."
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 603-648) and index.
505 0 0 _gCh. 1.
_tThe language of the Gods enters the world --
_gCh. 2.
_tLiterature and the cosmopolitan language of literature --
_gCh. 3.
_tThe world conquest and regime of the cosmopolitan style --
_gCh. 4.
_tSanskrit culture as courtly practice --
_gCh. 5.
_tThe map of Sanskrit knowledge and the discourse on the ways of literature --
_gCh. 6.
_tPolitical formations and cultural ethos --
_gCh. 7.
_tA European countercosmopolis --
_gCh. 8.
_tBeginnings, textualization, superposition --
_gCh. 9.
_tCreating a regional world : the case of Kannada --
_gCh. 10.
_tVernacular poetries and politics in Southern Asia --
_gCh. 11.
_tEurope vernacularized --
_gCh. 12.
_tComparative and connective vernacularization --
_gCh. 13.
_tActually existing theory and its discontents --
_gCh. 14.
_tIndigenism and other culture-power concepts of modernity --
_tEpilogue. From cosmopolitan-or-vernacular to cosmopolitan-and-vernacular.
650 0 _aSanskrit literature
_xPolitical aspects.
650 0 _aSanskrit literature
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aIndic literature
_xHistory.
650 0 _aIndic literature
_xPolitical aspects.
650 0 _aPolitics and literature
_zIndia
_xHistory.
650 0 _aLiterature and society
_zIndia
_xHistory.
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