publication announcement

[Whitney Cox]

Dear colleagues,

It gives me great pleasure to announce the appearance of South Asian Texts
in History: Critical Engagements with Sheldon Pollock Edited by Yigal
Bronner, Whitney Cox, and Lawrence McCrea (Asia Past & Present: New Research
from AAS, Number 7).  I append the table of contents below, along with a
link to the front matter of the volume.

Yours,

Whitney Cox

http://www.asian-studies.org/publications/South-Asian-Texts-TOC.pdf


Acknowledgments / ix
Contributors / xi
Foreword / xiii
Nicholas Dirks
Introduction / 1
Yigal Bronner, Whitney Cox, and Lawrence McCrea

PART ONE: The Rāmāyaṇa and Its Readers
1.  A New Perspective on the Royal Rāma Cult at Vijayanagara  / 25
Ajay K. Rao
2.  A Text with a Thesis: The Rāmāyaṇa from Appayya Dīkṣita’s
Receptive End / 45
Yigal Bronner
3.  Expert Nation: An Epic of Antiquity in the World of Modernity / 65
Robert Goldman

PART TWO: Kāvya: Sanskrit Literary Culture in History
4.  The Prose Varṇaka in the Lalitavistara / 83
Xi He
5.  The Second Mahābhārata / 103
Sudipta Kaviraj
6.  The Vernacular Cosmopolitan: Jayadeva’s Gītagovinda / 125
Jesse Ross Knutson

PART THREE: The Vernacular and the Cosmopolitan
7.  Insiders, Outsiders, and the Tamil Tongue / 153
Blake Wentworth
8.  Saffron in the Rasam / 177
Whitney Cox
9.  Hindi Literary Beginnings / 203
Allison Busch

PART FOUR: Śāstra: Sanskrit Systems of Knowledge in (and outside)
History
10.  Standards and Practices: Following, Making, and Breaking
the Rules of Śāstra / 229
Lawrence McCrea
11.  For Whom is the “Naturalness” of Language a Problem?
Thoughts on Reframing a Buddhist-Mīmāṃsaka Debate / 245
Dan Arnold
12.  The Social in Kashmiri Aesthetics: Suggesting and Speciously
Savoring Rasa in Ānandavardhana and Abhinavagupta / 267
Guy Leavitt
PART FIVE: Early Modernity
13.  The End of the Ends of Man? / 293
Parimal G. Patil
14.  The Triumph of Reason: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century
Sanskrit Discourse and the Application of Logic to Law / 315
Ethan Kroll
15.  The Śūdra in History: From Scripture to Segregation / 337
Ananya Vajpeyi
16.  This Noble Science: Indo-Persian Comparative Philology,
c. 1000–1800 CE / 359
Rajeev Kinra


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Dr. Whitney Cox
Senior Lecturer in Sanskrit
Department of the Languages and Cultures of South Asia,
School of Oriental and African Studies
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square
London WC1H 0XG


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