Sheldon Pollock
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Articles

  1. Pollock, Sheldon I. “Small Philology and Large Philology.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 38, no. 1 (May 2018): 122–27. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-4390027. | PDF

  2. ———. „Wie Wir Lesen“. Geschichte der Germanistik 53/54 (2018): 62–76.

  3. ———. „Aufsätze: What Should a Classical Library of India Be?“ Herausgegeben von Christoph König, Marcel Lepper, und Wallstein-Verlag. Geschichte der Germanistik Historische Zeitschrift für die Philologien., 2018. | PDF

  4. ———. «La filologia nel mondo». Rivista di Filologia e di Istruzione Classica 145, n. 1 (2017): 221–51. | PDF

  5. ———. “Conundrums of Comparison.” KNOW: A Journal on the Formation of Knowledge 1, no. 2 (September 2017): 273–94. https://doi.org/10.1086/693381. | PDF

  6. ———. “The Columbia Global Humanities Project.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 37, no. 1 (May 2017): 113–16. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-3821345. | PDF

  7. ———. “Areas, Disciplines, and the Goals of Inquiry.” The Journal of Asian Studies 75, no. 4 (November 2016): 913–28. https://doi.org/10.1017/S002191181600111X. | PDF

  8. ———. “Philology and Freedom.” Philological Encounters 1, no. 1 (January 2016): 4–30. https://doi.org/10.1163/24519197-00000012. | PDF

  9. ———. “Rice and Ragi: Remembering URA.” Seminar, no. 666 (February 2015): 16–20. https://www.india-seminar.com/2015/666/666_sheldon_pollock.htm. | PDF

  10. Pollock, Sheldon I., and U. R. Ananthamurthy, trans. by. “State of Nature (Prakriti).” Seminar, no. 666 (February 2015): 77–82. http://www.india-seminar.com/2015/666/666_u_r_ananthamurthy.htm. Reprint, New Delhi: Aleph Books, 2018. | PDF

  11. Pollock, Sheldon I. “The Alternative Classicism of Classical India.” Seminar, no. 671 (2015). http://www.india-seminar.com/2015/671/671_sheldon_pollock.htm. Reprinted with emendations from “Indian Classicity.” | PDF

  12. ———. “Indisk Klassicitet” Civilisation. Perspectives from the Engelsberg Seminar. Kurt Almqvist and Mattias Hessérus, Eds. Stockholm, Bokförlaget Stolpe (2020). Reprinted with emendations from “Indian Classicity.” | PDF

  13. ———. “Philologia Rediviva?” American Academy of Arts and Sciences Bulletin 68, no. 4 (2015): 34–36. https://www.amacad.org/news/philologia-rediviva. Reprint, Geschichte der Germanistik 49/50 (2016): 130-134. | PDF

  14. ———. “Liberating Philology.” Verge 1, no. 1 (2015): 16–21. | PDF

  15. ———. “Philology in Three Dimensions.” Postmedieval: a Journal of Medieval Cultural Studies 5, no. 4 (December 2014): 398–413. https://doi.org/10.1057/pmed.2014.33. | PDF

  16. ———. “What Is South Asian Knowledge Good for?” South Asia Institute Papers / Beiträge Des Südasianinstituts, no. 1 (2014): 1–22. | PDF

  17. ———. “Kritische Philologie.” Geschichte Der Germanistik, no. 45-46 (2014): 5–12.

  18. ———. “Commentary on De Pee: Epycycles of Cathay.” Fragments: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Ancient and Medieval Pasts 2 (2012): 68–75. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.9772151.0002.005. | PDF

  19. ———. “Vyakti and the History of Rasa.” Vimarsha, Journal of the Rasthriya Sanskrit Sansthan, no. 6 (2012): 232–53. Special issue, World Sanskrit Conference. | PDF

  20. ———. “Crisis in the Classics.” Social Research: An International Quarterly 78, no. 1 (2011): 21–48. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/528113/summary. Reprint, New Delhi: Rupa, 2012: 20-46; Tamil translation, Manarkeni (Chennai) (June 2012): 47-56. | PDF

  21. ———. “Indian Philology and India’s Philology.” Journal Asiatique 299, no. 1 (2011): 423–42. | PDF

  22. ———. “Future Philology? The Fate of a Soft Science in a Hard World.” Critical Inquiry 35, no. 4 (January 2009): 931–61. https://doi.org/10.1086/599594. | PDF German translation, Geschichte der Germanistik 35-36 (2009): 25-50; Russian translation, New Literary Observer (Moscow) 110 (April 2011): 92-114; Turkish translation by Onuralp Şahan, ABSÜ Sosyal Araştırmalar Dergisi (ABSU Journal of Social Research), 1.1, Summer 2023.

  23. ———. „Zukunftsphilologie?“ Herausgegeben von Christoph König und Marcel Lepper. Geschichte der Germanistik Mitteilungen, 2009, 25–50. German translation of "Future Philology?" | PDF

  24. ———. “The Real Classical Language Debate.” The Hindu, November 2008. https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-opinion/The-real-classical-languages-debate/article15349919.ece. | PDF

  25. ———. “Is There an Indian Intellectual History? Introduction to ‘Theory and Method in Indian Intellectual History.’” Journal of Indian Philosophy 36, no. 5-6 (2008): 533–42. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10781-008-9051-y. | PDF

  26. ———. “Towards a Political Philology: D D Kosambi and Sanskrit.” Economic and Political Weekly 43, no. 30 (July 2008): 52–59. Revised in, D D Kosambi: Unsettling the Past, ed. Meera Kosambi. Delhi: Permanent Black, 2013. | PDF

  27. ———. “The Problem of Early Modernity in the Sanskrit Intellectual Tradition.” International Association of Asian Studies Newsletter 43 (2007): 8–9.

  28. ———. “Pretextures of Time.” History and Theory 46 (October 2007): 364–81. | PDF

  29. ———. “We Need to Find What We Are Not Looking For.” International Institute for Asian Studies Newsletter 43 (2007): 1, 4–5. | PDF

  30. ———. “Sanskrit Knowledge on the Eve of Colonialism and at the Dawn of Globalization.” Tattvabodha: Essays from the Lecture Series of the National Mission for Manuscripts 1 (2006): 29–47. | PDF

  31. ———. “Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern South Asia: Introduction.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 24, no. 2 (2004): 19–21. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/181659. | PDF

  32. ———. “The Meaning of Dharma and the Relationship of the Two Mīmāṃsās: Appayya Dīkṣita’s ‘Discourse on the Refutation of a Unified Knowledge-System of Pūrvamīmāṃsā and Uttaramīmāṃsā.” Journal of Indian Philosophy 32 (2004): 769–811. Reprint, Delhi, 2010. | PDF

  33. ———. “Introduction: Working Papers on Sanskrit Knowledge-Systems on the Eve of Colonialism.” Journal of Indian Philosophy 30, no. 5 (2002): 431–39. | PDF

  34. ———. “New Intellectuals in Seventeenth-Century India.” The Indian Economic and Social History Review 38, no. 1 (2001): 3–31. Reprint in, Medieval Mentality, ed. Eugenia Vanina and D. N. Jha. Delhi: Tulika, 2009. | PDF

  35. ———. “The Social Aesthetic And Sanskrit Literary Theory.” Journal of Indian Philosophy 29, no. 1/2 (2001): 197–229. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23496871. Reprint in, Abhinavagupta: Reconsiderations, ed. Makarand Paranjape and Sunthar Visuvalingam. New Delhi: Samvad India Foundation, 2005. | PDF

  36. ———. “The Death of Sanskrit.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 43, no. 2 (2001): 392–426. | PDF

  37. ———. “Indian Knowledge Systems on the Eve of Colonialism.” Intellectual History Newsletter 22 (2000): 1–16.

  38. Pollock, Sheldon I., and Carol Appadurai Breckenridge. “In Honor of D. R. Nagaraj.” Public Culture 12, no. 3 (2000): xiv–xiv. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/26219. | PDF

  39. Pollock, Sheldon I. “Cosmopolitan and Vernacular in History.” Public Culture 12, no. 3 (September 2000): 591–625. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/26221. | PDF

  40. ———. “India in the Vernacular Millennium: Literary Culture and Polity, 1000-1500.” Edited by S. N. Eisenstadt, Wolfgang Schluchter, and Björn Wittrock. Daedalus 127, no. 3 (1998): 41–74. Special issue, Early Modernities: Varieties and Transitions, ed. S. N. Eisenstadt, Wolfgang Schluchter, and Björn Wittrock. | PDF

  41. ———. “Bhoja’s Śṛṅgāraprakāśa and the Problem of Rasa: A Historical Introduction and Translation.” Asiatische Studien/Études Asiatiques 52, no. 1 (1998): 117–92. | PDF

  42. ———. “The Cosmopolitan Vernacular.” The Journal of Asian Studies 57, no. 1 (February 1998): 6–37. https://doi.org/10.2307/2659022. | PDF

  43. ———. “Book Review of Genres Littéraires En Inde by Nalini Balbir.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 115, no. 4 (October 1995): 685. https://doi.org/10.2307/604737. | PDF

  44. ———. “Literary History, Region, and Nation in South Asia: Introductory Note.” Social Scientist 23, no. 10-12 (1995): 1–7. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3517879. | PDF

  45. ———. “Literary History, Indian History, World History.” Social Scientist 23, no. 10-12 (1995): 112–42. | PDF

  46. ———. “Public Poetry in Sanskrit.” Indian Horizons 44, no. 4 (1995): 84–106. Special issue, Sanskrit Literature, ed. A. N. D. Haksar. | PDF

  47. ———. “Rāmāyaṇa and Political Imagination in India.” The Journal of Asian Studies 52, no. 2 (May 1993): 261–97. https://doi.org/10.2307/2059648. Reprint in, Debates in History, ed. David N. Lorenzen. Delhi: Oxford U. Press, 2004. | PDF

  48. ———. “From Discourse of Ritual to Discourse of Power in Sanskrit Culture.” Journal of Ritual Studies 4, no. 2 (1990): 315–45. | PDF

  49. ———. “Humanities in South Asian Studies.” Items: Social Science Research Council 44, no. 4 (December 1990): 81–82. | PDF

  50. ———. “Mīmāṃsā and the Problem of History in Traditional India.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 109, no. 4 (October 1989): 603–11. | PDF

  51. ———. «Ideología y narrativa en el Rāmāyaṇa De Vālmīki». Estudios de Asia y Africa 22, n.º 3 (julio de 1987): 336-54. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40313103. | PDF

  52. ———. “Rāma’s Madness.” Wiener Zeitschrift Für Die Kunde Südasiens 29 (1985): 43–56. | PDF

  53. ———. “The Theory of Practice and the Practice of Theory in Indian Intellectual History.” Journal of the American Oriental Society, no. 105 (1985): 499–519. | PDF

  54. ———. “Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 105, no. 3 (July 1985): 387–89. https://doi.org/10.2307/601525. | PDF

  55. ———. “Rākṣasas and Others.” Indologica Taurinensia, Journal of the International Association of Sanskrit Studies 13 (1985): 263–81. | PDF

  56. ———. “Ātmānaṃ Mānuṣam Manye: Dharmākūtam on the Divinity of Rāma.” Journal of the Oriental Institute 33, no. 3–4 (March 1984): 231–43. | PDF

  57. ———. “The Divine King in the Indian Epic.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 104, no. 3 (July 1984): 505–28. https://doi.org/10.2307/601658. | PDF

  58. ———. “Some Lexical Problems in Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa.” Rtam: Journal of Akhila Bharatiya Sanskrit Parishad XI-XV (1983): 271–88. B. R. Saxsena Special Volume. | PDF