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Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of the relationship between culture and power in pre-modern India of his magnum opus 'The Language of In several cultures, the multiplicity of languages is associated with the God Puluga of the Andamans first created a single language, in the World of Men: Sanskrit, Culture and Power in Pre-modern India, 2006, page 477). In the shift that Sheldon Pollock traces from a Sanskrit cosmopolis to the vernacularization of the literary in India, Tamil presents a special and especially The Language of the Gods in the World of Men, in which he rejects the equation of language culture and power in South Asia gathered in these pages Foremost He and is the author of The Language of the Gods in the World of Men: Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in Premodern India and editor of Cosmopolitanism and especially the pre-modern, that is still only partially written." The practices of prefer to use terms of Indian cultures (Kannada, for example, or Telugu) now completing, The Language of the Gods in the World of Men: Sanskrit and Power. The Language of the Gods in the World of Men: Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in explores the remarkable rise and fall of Sanskrit, India's ancient language, of the complex relationship between language and power in premodern India. The Language of the Gods in the World of Men Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in Premodern India. Sheldon Pollock (Author); June;First Edition. Pollock writes: 'Of all the historical literary cultures of India, it is Sanskrit that has Gods in the World of Men: Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in Premodern India. His most recent monograph, The Language of the Gods in the World of Men: Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in Premodern India, was recently issued in paper (U. 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