The Theory of Practice and the Practice of Theory in Indian Intellectual History
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3962677 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sheldon Pollock (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 105 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 499 |
| Publication date | 1985-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the American Oriental Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0279 • E-ISSN: 2169-2289 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/601525 |
| OpenAlex | W2325244000 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 69 |
Sheldon Pollock, The Theory of Practice and the Practice of Theory in Indian Intellectual History, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 105, No. 3, Indological Studies Dedicated to Daniel H. H. Ingalls (Jul. - Sep., 1985), pp. 499-519
Economic history · Epistemology · Intellectual history · Sociology · History · Indian and Buddhist Studies · Indian History and Philosophy · Philosophy · Study and Philosophy of Religion
Textual culture as an object of study in the history of philosophy
"Kavirahasya", “The Secret of Poets”
How to become a Brahman
In the World of Men and beyond It
Saving Them From Yourself
Appropriating Depression
Authority, Critique, and Revision in the Sanskrit Music-Theoretic Tradition
Cosmologies, Truth Regimes, and the State in Southeast Asia
Rethinking the History of the Kāma World in Early India
Innovation in Seventeenth Century Grammatical Philosophy
Narrating knowledge; Reflections on the encyclopedic impulse in literary texts from Indonesian and Malay worlds
Gracefully twisting the neck
Conclusion
Introduction: Medieval India
Comparing Eighteenth-Century Polities
How Newness Enters the World
Music, Lyrics, and the Bengali Book
Incomplete mimesis, or when Indian dance started to narrate stories
Maunaṃ Sammatilakṣaṇam? The Eligibility of Women for Vedic Study in Dvaita Vedānta
In Charisma’s Wake
The Facets of Dance Revisited in the Nāṭyaśa̅stra and the Abhinaya Darpana
“Ever New Flights” of Creativity
Daṇḍin’s paspaśa
Chanakya/Kautilya
Monastic Governmentality, Colonial Misogyny, and Postcolonial Amnesia in South Asia
When useful knowledge is not ‘useful knowledge’
Indigenous knowledges and colonial sciences in South Asia
This is the truth—the truth without doubt”
Une atmosphère très particulière
The Great Ārdrā Darśanam Festival
Being Hindu or being human
Pride and Prejudice
Shifting Śāstric Śiva
Vernacular Vedānta
What Enables Canonical Literature to Function as “True”? The Case of the Hindu Purāṇas
Innovative Gurus
Caste, Race, and Abjection
From Agni to Agency
The Sikh Foundations of Ayurveda
A Surgeon’s Hand
Innovation and Social Change in the Vale of Kashmir, circa 900–1250 C.E
The Kakatiyas in Telugu Historical Memory
The Kakatiya Political Network
The Society of Kakatiya Andhra
Knowing the Sea
Andhra's Age of Inscriptions, 1000–1650
Temples and Temple Patronage in Kakatiya Andhra
A Philosophical Critique of Manu’s Code
Transsexualism, Gender, and Anxiety in Traditional India
Precolonial India in Practice
Vastutas tu
Bhaṭṭa Jayanta on Epistemic Complexity
Artificial Languages Across Sciences and Civilizations
Defining the Other
Classical Sāṁkhya on the Relationship between a Word and Its Meaning
From Word Magic to Systematic Linguistic Inquiry
How to Do Things with Sanskrit
Beyond the local and the universal
Politics, violence and war in Kāmandaka’s Nītisāra
Orienting Reason
From ritual to grammar
From precious to polluting
The Entextualization of Ayurveda as Intellectual Property
Les Agamas
Bhoja's Mechanical Garden
Areas, Disciplines, and the Goals of Inquiry
Tradition and Discipline
Notes Toward a Theoretical History of Indic Media
Truth Claims and Disputes in Ayurveda Medical Science
| Unique citing works | 69 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,09 |
| Citation span | 1993 - 2024 (32) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 57 |