...Frederick M. Smith South Asian Texts in History: Critical Engagements with Sheldon Pollock . Edited by Yigal Bronner , Whitney Cox , and Lawrence J. McCrea . Ann Arbor, Mich. : Association for Asian Studies , 2011 . xix , 403 pp. $35.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association...

...Sheldon Pollock Abstract From our present-day vantage point, the founding era of South Asian studies at Chicago looks like an age of unalloyed conceptual and political innocence. Area identities were given, disciplinary formations were unquestioned, the purposes of scholarship were self-evident...

...Sheldon Pollock The Divyatattva of Raghunandana Bhaṭṭācārya: Ordeals in Classical Hindu Law . Critically edited, with English translation, by Richard W. Lariviere . New Delhi : Manohar Publications , 1981 . xix, 280 pp. Appendixes, Bibliography, Index to the Introduction, Pāda Index...

...Sheldon Pollock The Bridge to the Three Holy Cities: The Sāmānya-praghaṭṭaka of Nārāyaṇa Bhaṭṭa's Tristhalīsetu . Edited and translated by Richard Salomon . Delhi : Motilal Banarsidass , 1985 . lviii, 542 pp. Rs. 175. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989...

...Sheldon Pollock Perception, Knowledge, and Disbelief: A Study of Jayarāśi's Scepticism . By Eli Franco . Alt- und Neu-Indische Studien 35. Stuttgart : Franz Steiner Verlag , 1987 . 584 pp. DM 58. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988 1988 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH...

...Sheldon Pollock Abstract F rom december 1992 through january 1993, more than 3,000 people were killed in “communal” rioting across India, from Surat to Calcutta, from Kanpur to Bangalore. The likes of this rioting had not been seen for generations; in Bombay, for example, more than 600 people died...

...S. Pollock Translating the Orient: The Reception of Śākuntala in Nineteenth-Century Europe . By Dorothy Matilda Figueira . Albany : State University of New York Press , 1991 . x, 260 pp. $44.50 (cloth); $14.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992...

...Sheldon Pollock Abstract Throughout southern asia at different times Starting around 1000, but in most places by 1500, writers turned to the use of local languages for literary expression in preference to the translocal language that had dominated literary expression for the previous thousand years...

... operating historically in conflated multilingual, diglossic, and “hyperglossic” environments. In any case, our debt to Pollock is great. He has pitched the discussion of the role of Sanskrit in large parts of Asia over the longue durée at a level, and an intensity, never before achieved. But what...

...Richard H. Davis The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: An Epic of Ancient India . Volume III: Araṇyakāṇḍa . Introduction, translation, and annotation by Sheldon I. Pollock . Edited by Robert P. Goldman . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1991 . viii, 394 pp. $65.00. Copyright ©...

...Saam Trivedi We should be grateful to Pollock for many years of honest, hard, scholarly work resulting in this excellent, magisterial reader, not the least because, as Pollock puts it, “no discipline of classical India has suffered greater losses than aesthetics” (p. 35). He rightly points out...

...David L. Gitomer The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: An Epic of Ancient India . Vol. 2: Ayodhyākāṇḍa . Introduction and translation by Sheldon I. Pollock . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1986 . xviii, 558 pp. $60.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 206...

..., where Rama appears as a mainly human agent, and the "interpolated" books 1 and 7, where Rama's divinity and identity with Visnu occupy the foreground. Pollock argues, by contrast, that Rama's divinity pervades the entire tale but that it is not a simple kind of divinity. Ravana's boon, an integral part...

.... Whether these treatments of language take the analytic form of indigenous literary theories, grammars, and poetics, as in the texts surveyed by Pollock and Freeman, or whether they take the poetic form of celebratory epithets and mythologizing, as in Ramaswamy's essay, they highlight the conscious...

...Bruce Robbins Cosmopolitanism . Edited by Carol A. Breckenridge , Sheldon Pollock , Homi K. Bhabha , and Dipesh Chakrabarty . Durham and London : Duke University Press , 2002 . 260 pp. $64.95 (cloth); $21.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003...

... work on the Heart Sutra. JOSE IGNACIO CABEZ6N Ohio State University The Rdmdyana o/Vdlmiki: An Epic of Ancient India. Vol. 2: Ayodhydkdnda. Introduction and translation by SHELDON I. POLLOCK. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986. xviii, 558 pp. $60.00. In the Ayodhydkdnda, the second volume...

... that Ricci might have been better served by framing the book more boldly as a challenge to Pollock's largely binary division of cosmopolitan and vernacular. In the end, the conclusion I drew from Ricci's work—one that she states in various ways, but not as her central conclusion—is that Islamic literature...

... for centuries in India and in all the ‘Indianized’ parts of Asia” (p. 28). This immediately brings to mind Sheldon Pollock's notion of the cosmopolis, which is causing much interest today, with Sanskrit as an aesthetic political power that created a world culture. 1 In both instances, Sanskrit...

... and cultural practices rather than strictly on institutional changes in historical analysis (e.g., Alam 2004 ; Narayana Rao, Shulman, and Subrahmanyam 2001 ; Pollock 2006 ). Continuing within this same commitment, this paper discusses some of the values that informed the actions of two polities...

.... APURBA KUNDU London School of Economics The Ramdyana of Valmiki: An Epic of Ancient India. Volume III: Aranyakdnda. Introduction, translation, and annotation by S H E L D O N I. POLLOCK. Edited by R O B E R T P . G O L D M A N . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. viii, 394 pp. $65.00. Sheldon...