Pollock, Sheldon I.

Sheldon I. Pollock is the William B. Ransford Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Studies and Chairman of the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University. He 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 Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia".