Dear colleagues,<div><br></div><div>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 &amp; 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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Yours,</div><div><br></div><div>Whitney Cox</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.asian-studies.org/publications/South-Asian-Texts-TOC.pdf">http://www.asian-studies.org/publications/South-Asian-Texts-TOC.pdf</a></div>
<div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>Acknowledgments / ix</div><div>Contributors / xi</div><div>Foreword / xiii</div><div>Nicholas Dirks</div><div>Introduction / 1</div><div>Yigal Bronner, Whitney Cox, and Lawrence McCrea</div>
<div><br></div><div>PART ONE: The Rāmāyaṇa and Its Readers</div><div>1.  A New Perspective on the Royal Rāma Cult at Vijayanagara  / 25</div><div>Ajay K. Rao </div><div>2.  A Text with a Thesis: The Rāmāyaṇa from Appayya Dīkṣita’s</div>
<div>Receptive End / 45</div><div>Yigal Bronner</div><div>3.  Expert Nation: An Epic of Antiquity in the World of Modernity / 65</div><div>Robert Goldman</div><div><br></div><div>PART TWO: Kāvya: Sanskrit Literary Culture in History</div>
<div>4.  The Prose Varṇaka in the Lalitavistara / 83</div><div>Xi He</div><div>5.  The Second Mahābhārata / 103</div><div>Sudipta Kaviraj</div><div>6.  The Vernacular Cosmopolitan: Jayadeva’s Gītagovinda / 125</div><div>Jesse Ross Knutson</div>
<div><br></div><div>PART THREE: The Vernacular and the Cosmopolitan</div><div>7.  Insiders, Outsiders, and the Tamil Tongue / 153</div><div>Blake Wentworth</div><div>8.  Saffron in the Rasam / 177</div><div>Whitney Cox</div>
<div>9.  Hindi Literary Beginnings / 203</div><div>Allison Busch</div><div><br></div><div>PART FOUR: Śāstra: Sanskrit Systems of Knowledge in (and outside) </div><div>History</div><div>10.  Standards and Practices: Following, Making, and Breaking</div>
<div>the Rules of Śāstra / 229</div><div>Lawrence McCrea</div><div>11.  For Whom is the “Naturalness” of Language a Problem?</div><div>Thoughts on Reframing a Buddhist-Mīmāṃsaka Debate / 245</div><div>Dan Arnold</div><div>
12.  The Social in Kashmiri Aesthetics: Suggesting and Speciously</div><div>Savoring Rasa in Ānandavardhana and Abhinavagupta / 267</div><div>Guy Leavitt</div><div>PART FIVE: Early Modernity</div><div>13.  The End of the Ends of Man? / 293</div>
<div>Parimal G. Patil</div><div>14.  The Triumph of Reason: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century</div><div>Sanskrit Discourse and the Application of Logic to Law / 315</div><div>Ethan Kroll</div><div>15.  The Śūdra in History: From Scripture to Segregation / 337</div>
<div>Ananya Vajpeyi</div><div>16.  This Noble Science: Indo-Persian Comparative Philology,</div><div>c. 1000–1800 CE / 359</div><div>Rajeev Kinra</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><br><br>Dr. Whitney Cox<br>
Senior Lecturer in Sanskrit<br>Department of the Languages and Cultures of South Asia,<br>School of Oriental and African Studies<br>Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square<br>London WC1H 0XG<br>
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