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Sheldon Pollock is the Arvind Raghunathan Professor of South Asian Studies. From 2005-2011 he served as the William B. Ransford Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Studies at Columbia, and before that as the George V. Bobrinskoy Distinguished Service Professor of Sanskrit and Indic Studies at the University of Chicago, where he taught from 1989-2005. He was educated at Harvard University, receiving his undergraduate degree in Classics magna cum laude in 1971 before earning a Masters and Ph.D. in Sanskrit and Indian Studies. His areas of specialization are Sanskrit philology, Indian intellectual and literary history, and, increasingly, comparative intellectual history.

Pollock is General Editor of the Murty Classical Library of India . He was Associate and then General Editor of the Clay Sanskrit Library, for which he also edited and translated a number of volumes, and joint editor of "South Asia across the Disciplines," a collaborative venture of the University of California Press, University of Chicago Press, and Columbia University Press. He directed the international collaborative research project "Sanskrit Knowledge Systems on the Eve of Colonialism." He is currently principal investigator of “SARIT: Enriching Digital Collections in Indology,” supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities/Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Bilateral Digital Humanities Program.

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Sheldon Pollock

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Books from Sheldon Pollock

The Language of the Gods in the World of Men: Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in Premodern India

Ramáyana II: Ayodhya

Global Intellectual History

Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia

Rama's Last Act (Clay Sanskrit Library)

A Rasa Reader: Classical Indian Aesthetics

Bouquet of Rasa & River of Rasa (Clay Sanskrit Library)

Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia: Explorations in the Intellectual History of India and Tibet, 1500-1800

What China and India Once Were: The Pasts That May Shape the Global Future

The Longman Anthology of World Literature, Volume D: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: An Epic of Ancient India, Volume III: Aranyakāṇḍa

The Loeb Classical Library and Its Progeny: Proceedings of the First James Loeb Biennial Conference, Munich and Murnau 18-20 May 2017

Language of the Gods in the World of Men

The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: An Epic of Ancient India, Volume II: Ayodhyakāṇḍa

The Longman Anthology of World Literature, Volume E

The Longman Anthology of World Literature, Volume C

Cosmopolitanism

Epic and Argument in Sanskrit Literary History: Essays in Honour of Robert P. Goldman