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The language of the Gods in the world of men: Sanskrit, culture, and power in premodern India /
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| Format: | Printed Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
c2006.
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| Online Access: | http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio5984545 |
Table of Contents:
- Sanskrit cosmopolis--Language of the Gods enters the world--Literature and the cosmopolitan language of literature--World conquest and regime of the cosmopolitan style--Sanskrit culture and courtly practice--Map of Sanskrit knowledge and the discourse of the ways of literature--Political formations and cultural ethos--European countercosmopolis--Vernacular millennium--Beginnings, textualization, superposition--Creating a regional world--Vernacular poetries and polities in southern Asia--Europe vernacularized--Comparative and connective vernacularization--Theory and practice of culture and power--Indigenism and other culture power concepts of modernity.