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Sheldon Pollock

Sheldon I. Pollock (born 1948) is an American scholar of Sanskrit, the intellectual and literary history of India, and comparative intellectual history. He is the Arvind Raghunathan Professor of South Asian Studies at Columbia University. He was the general editor of the Clay Sanskrit Library and the founding editor of the Murty Classical Library of India.

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Alma mater
Harvard University
Awards
Padma Shri
Born
1948 (age 77–78) United States
Discipline
Sanskrit, Philology, intellectual history
Doctoral advisor
Daniel H. H. Ingalls Sr.
Occupations
Chair, South Asian Studies, Columbia University

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Sheldon PollockThesisAspects of Versification in Sanskrit Lyric Poetry (1970)1.00infobox
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