Sheldon I. Pollock | |
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| Born | 1948 (age 75–76) United States |
| Occupation | Chair, South Asian Studies, Columbia University |
| Language | English |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Subject | Sanskrit, Philology, intellectual history |
| Notable awards | Padma Shri |
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Sheldon I. Pollock (born 1948) is an American scholar of Sanskrit, the intellectual and literary history of India, and comparative intellectual history. He is the Arvind Raghunathan Professor of South Asian Studies at Columbia University. He was the general editor of the Clay Sanskrit Library and the founding editor of the Murty Classical Library of India.