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The language of the gods in the world of men: Sanskrit, culture, and power in premodern India
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0520260031 (softcover)
9780520260030 (softcover)
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Pollock, Sheldon I.
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The language of the gods in the world of men : Sanskrit, culture, and power in premodern India / Sheldon Pollock
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Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, 2006
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xiv, 684 pages ; illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
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Philip E. Lilienthal book
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction -- Part 1: The Sanskrit cosmopolis. 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 -- Part 2: The vernacular millenium. Beginnings, textualization, superposition -- Creating a regional world: the case of Kannada -- Vernacular poetries and polities in Southern Asia -- Europe vernacularized -- Comparative and connective vernacularization -- Part 3: Theory and practice of culture and power. Actually existing theory and its discontents -- Indigenism and other culture-power concepts of modernity -- Epilogue: From cosmopolitan-or-vernacular to cosmopolitan-and-vernacular -- Appendix A -- Appendix B.
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Sanskrit literature -- To 1500 -- Political aspects
Sanskrit literature -- To 1500 -- History and criticism
Indic literature -- To 1500 -- History
Indic literature -- To 1500 -- Political aspects
Politics and literature -- India -- History
Literature and society -- India -- History
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