Recent and forthcoming publications:
“What was Bhaṭṭa Nāyaka Saying? The Hermeneutical Transformation of Indian Aesthetics.” In Sheldon Pollock, ed. Epic and Argument in Sanskrit Literary History: Essays in Honor of Robert P. Goldman. Delhi: Manohar, 2010, pp. 143-184. (download)
"Future Philology? The Fate of a Soft Science in a Hard World." In James Chandler and Arnold Davidson, eds. The Fate of the Disciplines. Special number, Critical Inquiry volume 35, number 4 (Summer 2009): 931-61 (download)
"The Real Classical Languages Debate" (The Hindu, 27 November 2008) (download)
The Bouquet of Rasa and the River of Rasa (Rasamañjari and Rasatarangini) of Bhanudatta. Edited, translated, and annotated, with an Introduction. New York: New York University Press. The Clay Sanskrit Library,2009, 398 pp. (download Introduction)
“Is there an Indian Intellectual History?” Journal of Indian Philosophy (in press) (download)
“Towards a Political Philology: D. D. Kosambi and Sanskrit.” Economic and Political Weekly (D. D. Kosambi Centenary Volume), July 26, 2008: 52-59. (download)
Rama’s Last Act (Uttararamacarita) of Bhavabhuti. Edited, translated, and annotated, with an Introduction; forward by Girish Karnad. New York: New York University Press. The Clay Sanskrit Library, 2007, 451 pp. (download Introduction)
“Pretextures of Time,” History and Theory 46 (October 2007): 364-381. (download)
“Literary Culture and Manuscript Culture in Precolonial India.” In Simon Eliot, Andrew Nash, Ian Willison, eds. History of the Book and Literary Cultures. London: British Library, 2006, pp.77-94. (download)
“Empire and Imitation.” In Craig Calhoun, Frederick Cooper, and Kevin Moore, eds. Lessons of Empire. New York: NewPress, 2006, pp. 175-188. (download)
“Ratnasrijñana.” In R. K. Sharma, ed. Encyclopedia of Indian Wisdom: Dr. Satya Vrat Shastri Felicitation Volume. Delhi:Bharatiya Vidya Prakashan, 2005, pp. 637-43. (download)
The Ends of Man at the End of Premodernity. Amsterdam: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2005 (download)
Visvatmaka Desabhase [The Cosmopolitan Vernacular], tr. Akshara K.V.Heggodu (Karnataka): Akshara Prakashana, 2003, D.R. Nagaraj Nenapina AksharaChintana Maale. (A collection of essays on Kannada literary culture in Kannadatranslation, with a new introduction)
Ed. Forms of Knowledge in Early ModernSouth Asia: Explorations in the Intellectual History of India and Tibet,1500-1800 (Duke U. Press, in press).
Ed. Literary Cultures in History:Reconstructions from South Asia. Berkeley: U. of California Press, 2003.(download)
“Introduction.” In Literary Cultures inHistory: Reconstructions from South Asia: pp. 1-36. (download)
“Sanskrit Literary Culture from the Inside Out.” In Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia:pp. 39-130. (download)
Ed., with Carol Breckenridge, Dipesh Chakrabarty, and Homi Bhabha. Cosmopolitanism. Durham: Duke U. Press, 2002.
