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This celebrates the distinguished career of the American IndologistRobert P. Goldman. The essays on Sanskrit literary history, whichrange from the danastutui in the Rgveda(Romila Thapar) to thetransformation of literary theory in ninth-century Kashmir(SheldonPollock) to the practice of philology in seventeenth centuryVaranasi(Chirstopher Minkowski), reflect the wide range ofinterests of Professor Goldman himself, and the wide influence hehas exerted on the field. Eight of the essays(by such leadingscholars as Greg Bailey, John Brockington, James Fitzgerald, LuisGonzalez-Reimann, PHyllis Granoff, Alf Hiltebeitel, AdheeshSathaye, and Sally Sutherland Goldman), concentrate on the epicsand Puranas, and as an ensemble make for essential reading on thegenre of Sanskrit literature to which Goldman, as editor-in-chiefof the Ramayana Translation Project, has devoted the greater partof his career. The scholarly essays are book ended by the survey ofProfessor Goldman's scholarly contributions(Deven Patel) and alively personal reminiscence(Jeffery Moussaieff Masson)
Sheldon Pollock is Ransford Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Studies at Columbia University. He is the general editor of the Murty Classical Library of India (Harvard University Press), and author of, among other books, The Language of the Gods in the World of Men: Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in Premodern India (University of California Press). He is currently working on Liberation Philology (Harvard University) and Reader on Rasa: An Historical Sourcebook in Indian Aesthetics, for a new series of sourcebooks in classical Indian thought that he is editing for Columbia University Press. In 29 he received the President's Award for Sanskrit from the Government of India.
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