1. Sheldon I Pollock was born on 1948 and is an American scholar of Sanskrit, the intellectual and literary history of India, and comparative intellectual history.
17 Facts About Sheldon Pollock
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Sheldon Pollock is the Arvind Raghunathan Professor of South Asian Studies at Columbia University.
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Sheldon Pollock was the general editor of the Clay Sanskrit Library and the founding editor of the Murty Classical Library of India.
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Sheldon Pollock directed the project Sanskrit Knowledge Systems on the Eve of Colonialism, in which a number of non-Indian scholars examine the state of knowledge produced in Sanskrit before colonialism.
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Sheldon Pollock is editing a series of Historical Sourcebooks in Classical Indian Thought, to which he has contributed A Rasa Reader: Classical Indian Aesthetics.
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Sheldon Pollock was general editor of the Clay Sanskrit Library and is founding editor of the Murty Classical Library of India.
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Sheldon Pollock served on the Humanities Jury for the Infosys Prize in 2012.
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Sheldon Pollock begins his 2001 paper The Death of Sanskrit by associating Sanskrit with Hindutva, the Bharatiya Janata Party, and the Vishva Hindu Parishad.
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Sheldon Pollock writes, "in some crucial way, Sanskrit is dead", and postulates how Sanskrit might have reached such an impasse.
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Sheldon Pollock added that "what destroyed Sanskrit literary culture was a set of much longer-term cultural, social, and political changes".
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Sheldon Pollock has argued that, in the Sanskrit cosmopolis, vernacular languages were largely excluded from doing the kind of political-cultural "work" that Sanskrit did.
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Sheldon Pollock has focused on Kannada as a case study in vernacularization in South Asia, and has reflected on the vernacularization of Europe as a parallel instance.
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Sheldon Pollock believes the idea of "a single Indian 'peoplehood' " present in the name of the Bharatiya Janata Party is a modern invention:.
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Sheldon Pollock has written about the history and current state of philology, both inside India and outside.
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Rohan Murty, the founder of the library, stated that Sheldon Pollock will continue his position, saying that the library will commission the best possible scholar for that particular language.
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However, in 2022, Professor Parimal G Patil of Harvard, the chair of MCLI's oversight board, forced Pollock to resign from his position as General Editor two years before his term was up.
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Sheldon Pollock directed the Literary Cultures in History project, which culminated in a book of the same title.