Sheldon Pollock
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Chapters

  1. Pollock, Sheldon I. “A Theory of Philological Practice in Early Modern India.” In Shaping the sciences of the ancient world, edited by Agathe Keller & Karine Chemla. Forthcoming (Springer Verlag, Archimedes, vol. 7). | PDF

  2. ———. “How We Read.” In Sensitive Reading: The Pleasures of South Asian Literature in Translation, edited by Yigal Bronner & Charles Hallisey, with translations by David Shulman, 44–51. Oakland: U. of California Press, 2022. | PDF

  3. ———. “[How] Indian [Literature Begins].” In How Literatures Begin: A Global History, edited by Joel B. Lande & Denis Feeney. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton U. Press, 2020. | PDF

  4. ———. “What Should a Classical Library of India Be?” In The Loeb Classical Library and Its Progeny. Proceedings of the First James Loeb Biennial Conference, edited by Jeffrey Henderson and Richard Thomas, 63–84. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard U. Press, 2020. | PDF

  5. ———. “Foreword.” In Introduction to Indian Aesthetics: History, Theory and Theoreticians, vii-ix. New Delhi: Bloomsbury India, 2020. | PDF

  6. ———. « Indian Philology: Edition, Interpretation, and Difference ». In Enjeux de la philologie indienne: Traditions, éditions, traductions/transferts, édité par Silvia d’Intino et Sheldon I. Pollock, 3‑45. Paris: Institute de Civilisation Indienne, Collège de France, 2019. | PDF

  7. Owen, Stephen, and Sheldon I. Pollock. “Sorting Out Babel: Literature and Its Changing Languages.” In What China and India Once Were: The Pasts That May Shape the Global Future, edited by Benjamin Elman and Sheldon I. Pollock, 165–95. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2018. | PDF

  8. Elman, Benjamin, and Sheldon I. Pollock. “Introduction.” In What China and India Once Were: The Pasts That May Shape the Global Future, edited by Benjamin Elman and Sheldon I. Pollock, 1–24. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2018. | PDF

  9. Pollock, Sheldon I. “Introduction: An Intellectual History of Rasa.” In A Rasa Reader: Classical Indian Aesthetics, edited by Sheldon I. Pollock, 1–45. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2016. | PDF

  10. ———. “What Was Philology in Sanskrit?” In World Philology, edited by Benjamin A. Elman, Ku-ming Kevin Chang, and Sheldon I. Pollock, 114–36. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. | PDF

  11. ———. „Einleitung“. In Kritische Philologie: Essays zu Literatur, Sprache und Macht in Indien und Europa, herausgegeben von Christoph König, übersetzt von Brigitte Schöning, 7–15. Philologien. Göttingen: Wallstein-Verl, 2015. | PDF

  12. ———. “Introduction.” In World Philology, edited by Benjamin A. Elman, Ku-ming Kevin Chang, and Sheldon I. Pollock. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. | PDF

  13. ———. “Indian Classicity.” In Civilisation: Perspectives from the Engelsberg Seminar 2013, edited by Kurt Almqvist and Alexander Linklater, 61–69. Stockholm: Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation, 2014. | PDF

  14. ———. “Praśasti and Its Congeners: A Small Note on a Big Topic.” In Rājamahima: Felicitation Volume in Honour of Prof. C. Rajendran, edited by N. K. Sundareswaran, 21–39. Calicut: University of Calicut, 2013. | PDF

  15. ———. “Cosmopolitanism, Vernacularism, and Premodernity.” In Global Intellectual History, edited by Samuel Moyn and Andrew Sartori, 59–80. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2013. | PDF

  16. ———. « From Rasa Seen to Rasa Heard ». In Aux abords de la clairière: études indiennes et comparées en l’honneur de Charles Malamoud, édité par Silvia D’Intino et Caterina Guenzi, 189‑207. Érudites de l’Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes. Paris: Brepols, 2012. | PDF

  17. ———. “Rasa after Abhinava.” In Saṃskṛta-Sādhutā ‘Goodness of Sanskrit’: Studies in Honour of Professor Ashok N. Aklujkar, edited by Chikafumi Watanabe, Michele Desmarais, and Yoshichika Honda, 431–45. New Delhi: D. K. Printworld, 2012. https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/facultybooks/4. | PDF

  18. ———. “Towards a Political Philology: D. D. Kosambi and Sanskrit.” In Unsettling the Past: Unknown Aspects and Scholarly Assessments of D.D. Kosambi, edited by Meera Kosambi, 340–61. Delhi: Permanent Black, 2012. | PDF

  19. ———. “The Revelation of Tradition: Śruti, Smṛti, and the Sanskrit Discourse of Power.” In Boundaries, Dynamics And Construction Of Traditions In South Asia, edited by Federico Squarcini, 2nd ed., 41–61. London: Anthem Press, 2011. https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/CBO9781843313977A009/type/book_part. | PDF

  20. ———. “Sanskrit Studies in the United States.” In Sixty Years of Sanskrit Studies: Vol. 2: Countries Other than India, edited by Radhavallabh Tripathi, 2: Other Countries:259–310. New Delhi: DK Printworld, 2011. | PDF

  21. ———. “The Languages of Science in Early Modern India.” In Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia: Explorations in the Intellectual History of India and Tibet, 1500-1800, edited by Sheldon I. Pollock, 19–48. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011. Reprint, Delhi: Manohar, 2011. | PDF

  22. ———. “Introduction.” In Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia: Explorations in the Intellectual History of India and Tibet, 1500-1800, edited by Sheldon I. Pollock, 1–16. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011. | PDF

  23. ———. “What Was Bhaṭṭa Nāyaka Saying? The Hermeneutical Transformation of Indian Aesthetics.” In Epic and Argument in Sanskrit Literary History: Essays in Honor of Robert P. Goldman, edited by Sheldon I. Pollock, 143–84. New Delhi: Manohar Publishers & Distributors, 2010. | PDF

  24. ———. “Comparison without Hegemony.” In The Benefit of Broad Horizons: Intellectual and Institutional Preconditions for a Global Social Science : Festschrift for Björn Wittrock on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday, edited by Hans Joas and Barbro Sklute Klein, 185–204. Leiden: Brill, 2010. | PDF

  25. ———. “New Intellectuals in Seventeenth-Century India.” In Mind over Matter: Essays on Mentalities in Medieval India, edited by D.N. Jha and Eugenia Vanina, 228–61. New Delhi: Tulika Books, 2009.

  26. ———. “Indian Knowledge and the Problem of Early Modernity.” In Forms of Knowledge in India, edited by Suresh Raval, 19–36. New Delhi: Pencraft International, 2008.

  27. ———. “Literary Culture and Manuscript Culture in Precolonial India.” In Literary Cultures and the Material Book, edited by Simon Eliot. The British Library Studies in the History of the Book. London: British Library, 2007. Reprinted in The History of the Book in South Asia, ed. Francesca Orsini (London: Ashgate, 2013). | PDF

  28. ———. “The Languages of Science in Early-Modern India.” In Expanding and Merging Horizons: Contributions to South Asian and Cross-Cultural Studies in Commemoration of Wilhelm Halbfass, edited by Karin Preisendanz. Denkschriften / Österreichische Akademie Der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse ; Beiträge Zur Kultur- Und Geistesgeschichte Asiens. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2007. | PDF

  29. ———. “The Social Aesthetic and Sanskrit Literary Theory.” In Abhinavagupta: Reconsiderations, edited by Makarand Paranjape and Sunthar Visuvalingam, 382–414. New Delhi: Samvad India Foundation, 2006.

  30. ———. “Power and Culture Beyond Ideology and Identity.” In Margins of Writing, Origins of Cultures, edited by Seth L Sanders, 277–87. Oriental Institute Seminars. Chicago: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2006. | PDF

  31. ———. “Empire and Imitation.” In Lessons of Empire: Imperial Histories and American Power, edited by Craig J. Calhoun, Frederick Cooper, and Kevin W. Moore, 175–88. New York, NY: New Press, 2006. | PDF

  32. ———. “Axialism and Empire.” In Axial Civilizations and World History, edited by Jóhann Páll Árnason, S. N. Eisenstadt, and Björn Wittrock, 397–450. Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2005. | PDF

  33. ———. “Ratnaśrījñāna.” In Encyclopaedia of Indian Wisdom: Prof. Satya Vrat Shastri Felicitation Volume, edited by Satyavrat Sastri and Rāmakaraṇa Śarmā, 637–43. Delhi: Bharatiya Vidya Prakashan, 2005. | PDF

  34. ———. “The Revelation of Tradition: Śruti, Smrti, and the Sanskrit Discourse of Power.” In Boundaries, Dynamics And Construction Of Traditions In South Asia, edited by Federico Squarcini, 41–62. Florence: Florence University Press, 2005. https://doi.org/10.7135/UPO9781843313977.003. | PDF

  35. ———. “The Transformation of Culture-Power in Indo-Europe, 1000-1300.” In Eurasian Transformations, Tenth to Thirteenth Centuries: Crystallizations, Divergences, Renaissances, edited by Johann Arnason and Björn Wittrock, 247–78. Medieval Encounters. Leiden: Brill, 2004. https://brill.com/view/title/12032. | PDF

  36. ———. “A New Philology: From Norm-Bound Practice to Practice-Bound Norm in Kannada Intellectual History.” In South-Indian Horizons: Felicitation Volume for François Gros on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday, edited by Jean-Luc Chevillard, 389–406. Publications Du Département d’Indologie. Pondichéry: Institut Français de Pondichéry, [and] École Française d’Extrême-Orient, 2004. | PDF

  37. ———. “Rāmāyaṇa and Political Imagination in India.” In Religious Movements in South Asia 600–1800, edited by David N. Lorenzen, 153–209. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2004. | PDF

  38. ———. “Translations: The Bhagavad-Gita.” In The Longman Anthology of World Literature, edited by David Damrosch and David L. Pike, 2nd ed., A:851–53. New York, NY: Pearson Longman, 2004. | PDF

  39. ———. “Early South Asia.” In The Longman Anthology of World Literature, edited by David Damrosch, A:819–28. New York, NY: Pearson Longman, 2004. | PDF

  40. ———. “Crosscurrents: Contact, Conflict, and Conversion.” In The Longman Anthology of World Literature, edited by David Damrosch, B:11–12, 19–20, 26, 28, 35–36, 42–43, 61–62. New York, NY: Pearson Longman, 2004. | PDF

  41. ———. “The Vernacular Revolution.” In The Longman Anthology of World Literature, edited by David Damrosch, Vol. C. New York, NY: Pearson Longman, 2004. | PDF

  42. ———. “The World the Mughals Made.” In The Longman Anthology of World Literature, edited by David Damrosch, 2nd ed., D:13–15. New York, NY: Pearson Longman, 2004.

  43. ———. “The Folk and Their Tales.” In The Longman Anthology of World Literature, edited by David Damrosch, E:19–38. New York, NY: Pearson Longman, 2004. | PDF

  44. ———. “Sanskrit Literary Culture from the Inside Out.” In Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia, edited by Sheldon I. Pollock, 39–130. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003. | PDF

  45. ———. “Introduction.” In Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia, edited by Sheldon I. Pollock, 1–36. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003. | PDF

  46. ———. „Ex oriente nox: Indologie im nationalsozialistischen Staat“. In Jenseits des Eurozentrismus: postkoloniale Perspektiven in den Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften, herausgegeben von Sebastian Conrad und Shalini Randeria, 335–71. Frankfurt/New York, NY: Campus Verlag, 2002. | PDF

  47. Pollock, Sheldon I., Carol Breckenridge, Dipesh Chakrabarty, and Homi Bhabha. “Cosmopolitan and Vernacular in History.” In Cosmopolitanism, edited by Carol Breckenridge, 15–53. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002.

  48. Pollock, Sheldon I., Dipesh Chakrabarty, Homi Bhabha, Carol Breckenridge, and Dipesh Chakrabarty. “Introduction: Cosmopolitanisms.” In Cosmopolitanism, edited by Carol Breckenridge, 1–14. A Millenial Quartet Book. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002. | PDF

  49. Pollock, Sheldon I. «Dalla storia letteraria alla cultura letteraria nella storia». In Verso l’India oltre l’India. Scritti e ricerche sulle tradizioni intellettuali sudasiatiche, a cura di F. Squarcini, 55–73. Milano: Mimesis, 2002. | PDF

  50. ———. “India in the Vernacular Millennium: Literary Culture and Polity, 1000-1500.” In Public Spheres and Collective Identities, edited by Shmuel N Eisenstadt, Wolfgang Schluchter, and Björn Wittrock. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2001.

  51. ———. “Kālidāsa: Raghuvaṃśa.” In Ancient Indian Literature: An Anthology, edited by TRS Sharma, 2:421–31. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 2000. | PDF

  52. ———. “Indology, Power, and the Case of Germany.” In Orientalism: A Reader, edited by Alexander Lyon Macfie, 302–24. New York, NY: New York University Press, 2000.

  53. ———. “A Devotee’s Image of the Great Goddess.” In From the Ocean of Painting: India’s Popular Paintings, 1589 to the Present, edited by Barbara Rossi, 195. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

  54. ———. “The Sanskrit Cosmopolis, 300–1300: Transculturation, Vernacularization, and the Question of Ideology.” In Ideology and Status of Sanskrit: Contributions to the History of the Sanskrit Language, edited by Jan E. M. Houben, 197–247. Leiden: Brill, 1996. | PDF

  55. ———. “Philology, Literature, Translation.” In Translating, Translations, Translators From India To The West, edited by Enrica Garzilli, 111–27. Harvard Oriental Series, Opera Minora. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996. | PDF

  56. ———. “In Praise of Poets: On the History and Function of the Kavipraśaṃsā.” In Ānanda Bhāratī. Dr. K. Krishnamoorthy Felicitation Volume, edited by B. Channakeshava and H. V. Nagaraja Rao, 443–57. Mysore: D.V.K. Murthy, 1995. | PDF

  57. ———. “Rāmāyaṇa and Public Discourse in Medieval India.” In Studies in Jaina Art and Iconography and Allied Subjects in Honour of U. P. Shah, edited by R. T. Vyas, 141–59. Baroda: Oriental Institute, 1995. | PDF

  58. ———. “Making History: Kalyāṇi, A.D. 1008.” In Śrī Nāgābhinandanam: Dr. M.S. Nagaraja Rao Festschrift: Essays on Art, Culture, History, Archaeology, Epigraphy and Conservation of Cultural Property of India and Neighbouring Countries, 2:559–76. Bangalore: M.S. Nagaraja Rao Felicitation Committee, 1995. | PDF

  59. ———. “Early and Middle Period South Asia.” In The HarperCollins World Reader, edited by Mary Ann Caws and Christopher Prendergast, 487–599. New York, NY: HarperCollins, 1994.

  60. ———. “Deep Orientalism? Notes on Sanskrit and Power Beyond the Raj.” In Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament: Perspectives on South Asia, edited by Carol Appadurai Breckenridge and Peter van der Veer, 76–133. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993. | PDF

  61. ———. “Introduction.” In The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: An Epic of Ancient India, Vol III: Aranyakāṇḍa., edited by Robert P. Goldman and Sheldon I. Pollock, 3–84. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991. | PDF

  62. ———. “Playing by the Rules: Śāstra and Sanskrit Literature.” In Shastric Traditions In Indian Arts: Texts, edited by Anna Libera Dallapiccola, Christine Walter-Mendy, and Stephanie Zingel-Avé Lallemant, 301–12. Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1989. | PDF

  63. ———. “The Idea of Śāstra in Traditional India.” In Shastric Traditions In Indian Arts: Texts, edited by Anna Libera allapiccola, Christine Walter-Mendy, and Stephanie Zingel-Avé Lallemant, 17–26. Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1989. | PDF

  64. ———. “Introduction.” In The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: An Epic of Ancient India, Vol II: Ayodhyakāṇḍa., edited by Robert P. Goldman and Sheldon I. Pollock, translated by Sheldon I Pollock, 1–76. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1986. | PDF

  65. ———. “The Rāmāyaṇa Text and the Critical Edition.” In The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: An Epic of Ancient India, Vol I: Bālakāṇḍa, edited by Robert P. Goldman, 82–93. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984. https://muse.jhu.edu/book/49122. | PDF

  66. ———. “Text-Critical Observations on Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa.” In Sternbach Felicitation Volume, 317–25. Lucknow: Akhila Bharatiya Sanskrit Parishad, 1979. | PDF