Sheldon Pollock is the Arvind Raghunathan Professor of South Asian Studies at Columbia University. From
2005–2011 he served as the William B. Ransford Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Studies at Columbia, and
before that as the George V. Bobrinskoy Distinguished Service Professor of Sanskrit and Indic Studies at the
University of Chicago, where he taught from 1989–2005. His areas of specialization are Sanskrit philology,
Indian intellectual and literary history, and, increasingly, comparative intellectual history. His two new
book projects are Liberation Philology (Harvard University Press) and Reader on Rasa: A Historical
Sourcebook in Indian Aesthetics, the first in a new series of historical sourcebooks on classical Indian
thought that he is editing for Columbia University Press. Ph.D. Harvard University.
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