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This volume charts the contours of a reimagined and revitalized field of Indology in 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 book is not a history of Sanskrit kavya. Nor does it address all moments of the truly conceptual innovations in this tradition. What it offers is a series of pilot studies, sometimes the first serious interpretative essays, on many works – which, roughly arranged in a chronological sequence, highlight structural, stylistic, thematic, and generic breakthroughs. Some of the essays present wide-angle panoramas of the evolution of parallel traditions that ...