"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, The University of California at Berkeley "This major work is stimulating and path-breaking, and presents an extraordinarily ambitious argument. It is perhaps the first book in the Indological tradition to be a major empirical study as well as a contribution to critical cultural theory. Pollock is doubtless without peer in this entire field." - Arjun Appadural, New School University"

"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