Explores the rise and fall of Sanskrit, India's ancient language, as a vehicle of poetry and polity.
"The scholarship exhibited here is not only superior; it is in many ways staggering. The author's control of an astonishing range of primary and secondary texts from many languages, eras, and disciplines is awe-inspiring. This is a learned, original, and important work."-Robert Goldman, Sanskrit and India Studies, University of California, Berkeley
“The Language of the Gods . . . opens up a rich series of theoretical debates about language, modernity, culture, power and identity. . . . If there was a discipline of Pre-Modern Studies, [it] would be required reading.”
