A Rasa Reader: Classical Indian Aesthetics

Sheldon Pollock is William B. Ransford Professor of Sanskrit and South Asian Studies at Columbia University and former George V. Bobrinskoy Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. His publications include The Ends of Man at the End of Premodernity (2005), Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia (California, 2003), Cosmopolitanism (2002, with Homi Bhabha et al.), and The Ramayana of Valmiki, Volume III: Aranyakanda (1991), and Volume II: Ayodhyakanda (1986).