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The language of the gods in the world of men: Sanskrit, culture, and power in premodern India
Sheldon I. Pollock-
Frontmatter
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PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (page xi)
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Introduction (page 1)
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PART 1. The Sanskrit Cosmopolis
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Chapter 1. The Language of the Gods Enters the World (page 39)
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Chapter 2. Literature and the Cosmopolitan Language of Literature (page 75)
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Chapter 3. The World Conquest and Regime of the Cosmopolitan Style (page 115)
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Chapter 4. Sanskrit Culture as Courtly Practice (page 162)
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Chapter 5. The Map of Sanskrit Knowledge and the Discourse on the Ways of Literature (page 189)
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Chapter 6. Political Formations and Cultural Ethos (page 223)
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Chapter 7. A European Countercosmopolis (page 259)
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PART 2. The Vernacular Millennium
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Chapter 8. Beginnings, Textualization, Superposition (page 283)
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Chapter 9. Creating a Regional World: The Case of Kannada (page 330)
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Chapter 10. Vernacular Poetries and Polities in Southern Asia (page 380)
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Chapter 11. Europe Vernacularized (page 437)
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Chapter 12. Comparative and Connective Vernacularization (page 468)
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PART 3. Theory and Practice of Culture and Power
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Chapter 13. Actually Existing Theory and Its Discontents (page 497)
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Chapter 14. Indigenism and Other Culture-Power Concepts of Modernity (page 525)
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Epilogue. From Cosmopolitan-or-Vernacular to Cosmopolitan-and-Vernacular (page 567)
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APPENDIX A
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A.I Bhoja's Theory of Literary Language (from the Śṛṅgāraprakāśa) (page 581)
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A.2 Bhoja's Theory of Ornamentation (from the Sarasvatīkaṇṭhābharaṇa) (page 583)
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A.3 Śrīpāla's Bilpaṅk Praśasti of King Jayasiṃha Siddharāja (page 584)
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A.4 The Origins of Hemacandra's Grammar (from Prabhācandra's Prabhāvakacarita (page 588)
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A.5 The Invention of Kāvya (from Rājaśekhara's Kāvyamīmāṃsā ) (page 591)
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APPENDIX B
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B.I Approximate Dates of Principal Dynasties (page 597)
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B.2 Names of Important Peoples and Places with Their Approximate Modern Equivalents or Locations (page 597)
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PUBLICATION HISTORY (page 601)
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BIBLIOGRAPHY (page 603)
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INDEX (page 649)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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JESHO | 51.2 (2008): 338-383 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/25165245 |
JRAI | 14.2 (June 2008): 443-445 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/20203652 |
JAAR | 75.1 (Mar. 2007): 207-211 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/4139862 |
JAS | 66.3 (Aug. 2007): 819-825 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/20203206 |
AHR | 112.2 (Apr. 2007): 480-481 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/4136628 |
CSAM | 33.1 (2013): 117-124 | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/comparative_studies_of_south_asia_africa_and_the_middle_east/v033/33.1.mccrea.html |
CSAM | 31.2 (2011): 538-544 | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/comparative_studies_of_south_asia_africa_and_the_middle_east/v031/31.2.bronner.html |
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Published: c2006
Publisher: University of California Press
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