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A Rasa Reader: Classical Indian Aesthetics by Sheldon Pollock
RRP: $261.30Booksplease Price: $209.12From 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... -
A Rasa Reader: Classical Indian Aesthetics by Sheldon Pollock 9780231173919
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $56.94From 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... -
Aspects of Versification in Sanskrit Lyric Poetry by Sheldon Pollock 9780940490611
Booksplease Price: $110.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940490611Author Sheldon PollockFormat HardbackPage Count 345Imprint American Oriental... -
Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia Sheldon Pollock 9780520228214
RRP: $163.80Booksplease Price: $132.56A grand synthesis of unprecedented scope, "Literary Cultures in History" is the first comprehensive history of the rich literary traditions of South Asia. Together these traditions are unmatched in... -
The Language of the Gods in the World of Men: Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in Premodern India by Sheldon Pollock 9780520260030
RRP: $79.95Booksplease Price: $66.87In this work of impressive scholarship, Sheldon Pollock explores the remarkable rise and fall of Sanskrit, India's ancient language, as a vehicle of poetry and polity. He traces the two great moments... -
The Language of the Gods in the World of Men: Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in Premodern India by Sheldon Pollock 9780520245006
RRP: $138.45Booksplease Price: $127.18In this work of impressive scholarship, Sheldon Pollock explores the remarkable rise and fall of Sanskrit, India's ancient language, as a vehicle of poetry and polity. He traces the two great moments... -
Epic and Argument in Sanskrit Literary History: Essays in Honour of Robert P. Goldman Sheldon Pollock 9788173048654
Booksplease Price: $121.80Epic and Argument in Sanskrit Literary History celebrates the distinguished career of the American Indologist Robert P. Goldman. The essays on Sanskrit literary history, which range from the... -
Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia: Explorations in the Intellectual History of India and Tibet, 1500-1800 by Sheldon Pollock 9780822349044
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $40.74In 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... -
Public Spheres and Collective Identities by Wolfgang Schluchter
RRP: $99.43Booksplease Price: $89.86Today it is assumed that we understand contemporary nationalism and nation-building. Researchers rarely consider the very different traditions from which such state-building emerged. Instead, there... -
The Renewal of the Priesthood: Modernity and Traditionalism in a South Indian Temple by C. J. Fuller
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $73.28Much has changed for the priests at the Minakshi Temple, one of the most famous Hindu temples in India. In The Renewal of the Priesthood, C. J. Fuller traces their improving fortunes over the past 25... -
Cosmopolitanism by Dipesh Chakrabarty 9780822328995
Booksplease Price: $65.34As 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... -
Rethinking East Asian Languages, Vernaculars, and Literacies, 1000–1919 by Benjamin Elman 9789004305953
Booksplease Price: $94.50The authors consider new views of the classical versus vernacular dichotomy that are especially central to the new historiography of China and East Asian languages. Based on recent debates initiated... -
Eurasian Transformations, Tenth to Thirteenth Centuries: Crystallizations, Divergences, Renaissances by Johann P. Arnason 9789004205772
Booksplease Price: $88.94This volume which also appeared as a special issue of Medieval Encounters deals with transformations of the major Eurasian civilizations in the early second millennium CE, and with the question of... -
First Words, Last Words: New Theories for Reading Old Texts in Sixteenth-Century India by Yigal Bronner 9780197583470
RRP: $144.30Booksplease Price: $132.60First Words, Last Words charts an intense "pamphlet war" that took place in sixteenth-century South India. Yigal Bronner and Lawrence McCrea explore this controversy as a case study in the dynamics... -
Orientalism: A Reader by Alexander Lyon Macfie 9780814756645
Booksplease Price: $177.20In the period of decolonization that followed World War II, a number of scholars, mainly Middle Eastern, launched a sustained assault on Orientalismthe theory and practice of representing the... -
Reading Sanskrit: A Complete Step-by-Step Introduction with Texts from the Buddhist Tradition Luke Gibson 9780231221238
RRP: $81.90Booksplease Price: $66.79This textbook offers a fresh approach to learning Sanskrit, the ancient language at the heart of South Asia's vast religious, philosophical, and literary heritage. Designed for independent learners... -
Orientalism: a Reader (PA): A Reader by Alexander Lyon Macfie 9780814756652
Booksplease Price: $61.07In the period of decolonization that followed World War II, a number of scholars, mainly Middle Eastern, launched a sustained assault on Orientalismthe theory and practice of representing the "East"... -
Theology After Vedanta: An Experiment in Comparative Theology by Francis X. Clooney 9780791413661
Booksplease Price: $50.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorFrancis X. Clooney, S.J. , is Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Theology at... -
Text to Tradition: The Naisadhiyacarita and Literary Community in South Asia by Deven M. Patel 9780231166805
RRP: $107.25Booksplease Price: $86.19Written in the twelfth century, the Naisadhiyacarita (The Adventures of Nala, King of Nisadha) is a seminal Sanskrit poem beloved by South Asian literary communities for nearly a millennium. This... -
Sons of Sarasvatī: Late Exemplars of the Indian Intellectual Tradition by Chinya V. Ravishankar 9781438471839
RRP: $141.38Booksplease Price: $116.18Presents rare biographies of traditional Indian scholars during the nineteenth century, a critical moment of transition for the Indian intellectual tradition.Traditional Indian panditya (scholarship)... -
Buddhist Philosophy of Language in India: Jnanasrimitra on Exclusion by Lawrence J. McCrea
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $45.88Jnanasrimitra (975-1025) was regarded by both Buddhists and non-Buddhists as the most important Indian philosopher of his generation. His theory of exclusion combined a philosophy of language with a... -
More than Real: A History of the Imagination in South India by David Shulman 9780674059917
RRP: $97.40Booksplease Price: $80.63From the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, the major cultures of southern India underwent a revolution in sensibility reminiscent of what had occurred in Renaissance Italy. During this time,... -
The Loeb Classical Library and Its Progeny: Proceedings of the First James Loeb Biennial Conference, Munich and Murnau 18–20 May 2017 by Jeffrey Henderson 9780674248717
Booksplease Price: $51.48James Loeb (1867-1933), one of the great patrons and philanthropists of his time, left many enduring legacies both to America, where he was born and educated, and to his ancestral Germany, where he... -
Classical Sanskrit Tragedy: The Concept of Suffering and Pathos in Medieval India by Bihani Sarkar 9780755639243
Booksplease Price: $65.99It is often assumed that classical Sanskrit poetry and drama lack a concern with the tragic. However, as Bihani Sarkar makes clear in this book, this is far from the case. In the first study of... -
How Literatures Begin: A Global History by Joel B. Lande 9780691186528
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $56.94A comparative history of the practices, technologies, institutions, and people that created distinct literary traditions around the world, from ancient to modern timesLiterature is such a familiar... -
How Literatures Begin: A Global History by Joel B. Lande
RRP: $185.25Booksplease Price: $146.45A comparative history of the practices, technologies, institutions, and people that created distinct literary traditions around the world, from ancient to modern timesLiterature is such a familiar... -
Allama Prabhu and the Shaiva Imagination by D. R. Nagaraj 9798855807295
Booksplease Price: $216.72Engages with the life and ideas of the twelfth-century Shaiva mystic and philosopher-poet Allama Prabhu.In his last, profoundly innovative work, D. R. Nagaraj (1954-1998) engages with the... -
Changing Theory: Concepts from the Global South Dilip M Menon 9781032226477
RRP: $79.93Booksplease Price: $73.16This book is an original, systematic, and radical attempt at decolonizing critical theory. Drawing on linguistic concepts from 16 languages from Asia, Africa, the Arab world, and South America, the... -
The Language of History: Sanskrit Narratives of Indo-Muslim Rule Audrey Truschke 9780231197052
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $48.91For over five hundred years, Muslim dynasties ruled parts of northern and central India, starting with the Ghurids in the 1190s through the fracturing of the Mughal Empire in the early eighteenth... -
What China and India Once Were: The Pasts That May Shape the Global Future by Benjamin Elman
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $56.94In 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... -
The Language of History: Sanskrit Narratives of Indo-Muslim Rule by Audrey Truschke 9780231197045
RRP: $228.15Booksplease Price: $178.66For over five hundred years, Muslim dynasties ruled parts of northern and central India, starting with the Ghurids in the 1190s through the fracturing of the Mughal Empire in the early eighteenth... -
The Clay Sanskrit Library: Plays: 8-volume Set by Clay Sanskrit Library 9780814717486
RRP: $220.35Booksplease Price: $181.49This set of plays provides an array of Sanskrit drama and satire, with plots that vary from the "strikingly Shakespearian" (as H. H. Wilson described it ) "Little Clay Cart" to a dramatization of and... -
Buddhists, Brahmins, and Belief: Epistemology in South Asian Philosophy of Religion by Dan Arnold 9780231132800
RRP: $228.15Booksplease Price: $179.24In Buddhists, Brahmins, and Belief, Dan Arnold examines how the Brahmanical tradition of Purva Mimamsa and the writings of the seventh-century Buddhist Madhyamika philosopher Candrakirti challenged...