South Asian texts in history
Subtitle: critical engagements with Sheldon Pollock
By: edited by Yigal Bronner, Whitney Cox, and Lawrence McCrea
Contributors: Association for Asian Studies
Series: Asia past & present : new research from AAS -- no. 7
Publisher: Association for Asian Studies
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780924304637
Subjects: Civilization; Literature and society; Indic literature; Sanskrit literature; History and criticism; Influence; History
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: A new perspective on the royal Rama cult at Vijayanagara / Ajay K. Rao; title: A text with a thesis : the Ramayana from Appayya Diksita's receptive end / Yigal Bronner; title: Expert nation : an epic of antiquity in the world of modernity / Robert Goldman; title: The prose Var?aka in the Lalitavistara / Xi He; title: The second Mahabharata / Sudipta Kaviraj; title: The vernacular cosmopolitan : Jayadeva's Gitagovinda / Jesse Ross Knutson; title: Insiders, outsiders, and the Tamil tongue / Blake Wentworth; title: Saffron in the Rasam / Whitney Cox; title: Hindi literary beginnings / Allison Busch; title: Standards and practices : following, making, and breaking the rules of Sastra / Lawrence McCrea; title: For whom is the "naturalness" of language a problem? : thoughts on reframing a Buddhist-Mimamsa debate / Dan Arnold; title: The social in Kashmiri aesthetics : suggesting and speciously savoring Rasa in Anandavardhana and Abhinavagupta / Guy Leavitt; title: The end of the ends of man? / Parimal G. Patil; title: The triumph of reason : seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Sanskrit discourse and the application of logic to law / Ethan Kroll; title: The Sudra in history : from scripture to segregation / Ananya Vajpeyi; title: Mirrors for poets, mirrors of places : Indo-Persian comparative philology, ca. 1000-1800 ce / Rajeev Kinra.