Whitney Cox is Associate Professor at the University of Chicago, where he teaches Sanskrit, among other things. With any luck, his two books, on the politics of the South Indian Chola dynasty and on medieval South Asian textual scholarship, will be out next year.
Whitney Cox
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Gems, Monsters, and Broodmares for Corpses
“No Hindu ever reads the Mahabharata for the first time,” A. K. Ramanujan, the celebrated poet, translator, and linguist, once wrote. The same cannot be said of the reader of contemporary literary English. Most have probably heard of the Bhagavad Gita, some might have an acquaintance with one of the poem’s modern Indian television avatars […]
