South Asian Texts in History – Critical Engagements with Sheldon Pollock

Author:   Lawrence J. Mccrea ,  Whitney Cox ,  Yigal Bronner
Publisher:   Association for Asian Studies
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9780924304637


Pages:   424
Publication Date:   01 September 2011
Format:   Paperback
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South Asian Texts in History – Critical Engagements with Sheldon Pollock


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South Asian Texts in History charts the contours of a reenvisioned and revitalized field of Indology in the light of the groundbreaking research of Sheldon Pollock. One of the many exciting aspects of Pollock's work is its unprecedented combination of classical textual study with cutting edge theoretical and social scientific inquiry-a combination which this book sets out to emulate. Pollock has trained and inspired a new generation of scholars, many of whom have contributed to this volume. The essays are organized into five groups that reflect the major domains of Pollock's immense contributions to the field: the epic Ramayana, Sanskrit literature and literary theory, systematic thought in premodern South Asia, the birth of a new vernacular cultural order in the subcontinent during the second millennium CE, and India's early modernity. Most of the essays concentrate on materials in Sanskrit, but there are also considerable contributions to the history of Hindi, Tamil, and Persian literatures. The book presents for the first time an overview of the groundbreaking contributions of Sheldon Pollock to South Asia scholarship over the past three decades, while offering a set of critiques of key elements of his theories.

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Author:   Lawrence J. Mccrea ,  Whitney Cox ,  Yigal Bronner
Publisher:   Association for Asian Studies
Imprint:   Association for Asian Studies
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.632kg
ISBN:  

9780924304637


ISBN 10:   0924304634
Pages:   424
Publication Date:   01 September 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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YIGAL BRONNER is Assistant Professor in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. WHITNEY COX is Senior Lecturer in Sanskrit in the Department of the Languages and Cultures of South Asia at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. LAWRENCE MCCREA is Assistant Professor of Sanskrit Studies in the Department of Asian Studies at Cornell University.

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