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  • What China and India Once Were

    The Pasts That May Shape the Global Future

    Edited by Benjamin Elman, Sheldon Pollock ...
    In the early years of the twenty-first century, China and India have emerged as world powers. In many respects, this is a return to the historical norm for both countries. For much of the early modern period, China and India were global leaders in a variety of ways. In this book, prominent scholars seek to understand modern China and India through an unprecedented comparative analysis of their ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • What China and India Once Were

    The Pasts That May Shape the Global Future

    Edited by Benjamin Elman, Sheldon Pollock ...
    In the early years of the twenty-first century, China and India have emerged as world powers. In many respects, this is a return to the historical norm for both countries. For much of the early modern period, China and India were global leaders in a variety of ways. In this book, prominent scholars seek to understand modern China and India through an unprecedented comparative analysis of their ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • World Philology

    Edited by Sheldon Pollock ...
    Philology—the discipline of making sense of texts—is enjoying a renaissance within academia. World Philology charts the evolution of philology across the many cultures and time periods in which it has been practiced and demonstrates how this branch of knowledge, like philosophy and mathematics, is essential to human understanding. ... Read more

    $39.39 USD

  • Cosmopolitanism

    Edited by Carol A. Breckenridge, Sheldon Pollock, Homi K. Bhabha, Dipesh Chakrabarty ...
    Series series a Public Culture Book
    As the final installment of *Public Culture’*s Millennial Quartet, Cosmopolitanism assesses the pasts and possible futures of cosmopolitanism—or ways of thinking, feeling, and acting beyond one’s particular society. With contributions from distinguished scholars in disciplines such as literary studies, art history, South Asian studies, and anthropology, this volume recenters the history and theory ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia

    Explorations in the Intellectual History of India and Tibet, 1500-1800

    by Sumit Guha, Velcheru Narayana Rao, David Shulman, Sunjay Subrahmanyam ...
    In the past two decades, scholars have transformed our understanding of the interactions between India and the West since the consolidation of British power on the subcontinent around 1800. While acknowledging the merits of this scholarship, Sheldon Pollock argues that knowing how colonialism changed South Asian cultures, particularly how Western modes of thought became dominant, requires knowing ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • A Rasa Reader

    Classical Indian Aesthetics

    by Sheldon Pollock ...
    Series series Historical Sourcebooks in Classical Indian Thought
    From the early years of the Common Era to 1700, Indian intellectuals explored with unparalleled subtlety the place of emotion in art. Their investigations led to the deconstruction of art's formal structures and broader inquiries into the pleasure of tragic tales. Rasa, or taste, was the word they chose to describe art's aesthetics, and their passionate effort to pin down these phenomena became ... Read more

    $35.99 USD