Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Preface And Acknowledgments xiii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part 1. The Sanskrit Cosmopolis
6. Chapter 1. The Language Of The Gods Enters The World 39
7. Chapter 2. Literature And The Cosmopolitan Language Of Literature 75
8. Chapter 3. The World Conquest And Regime Of The Cosmopolitan Style 115
9. Chapter 4. Sanskrit Culture As Courtly Practice 162
10. Chapter 5. The Map Of Sanskrit Knowledge And The Discourse On The Ways Of Literature 189
11. Chapter 6. Political Formations And Cultural Ethos 223
12. Chapter 7. A European Countercosmopolis 259
13. Part 2. The Vernacular Millennium
14. Chapter 8. Beginnings, Textualization, Superposition 283
15. Chapter 9. Creating A Regional World: The Case Of Kannada 330
16. Chapter 10. Vernacular Poetries And Polities In Southern Asia 380
17. Chapter 11. Europe Vernacularized 437
18. Chapter 12. Comparative And Connective Vernacularization 468
19. Part 3. Theory And Practice Of Culture And Power
20. Chapter 13. Actually Existing Theory And Its Discontents 497
21. Chapter 14. Indigenism And Other Culture-Power Concepts Of Modernity 525
22. Appendix A 581
23. Appendix B 597
24. Publication History 601
25. Bibliography 603
26. Index 649