Sheldon Pollock

Sheldon I. Pollock
Born	1948 (age 76–77) United States
Occupation(s)	Chair, South Asian Studies, Columbia University
Awards	Padma Shri
Academic background
Alma mater	Harvard University
Thesis	Aspects of Versification in Sanskrit Lyric Poetry (1970)
Doctoral advisor	Daniel H. H. Ingalls Sr.
Academic work
Discipline	Sanskrit, Philology, intellectual history
Website	sheldonpollock.org

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.