Stella Sandahl

Stella Sandahl

First Name: 
Stella
Last Name: 
Sandahl
Title: 
Professor Emerita
Biography : 

As a traditionally trained European Indologist my interests are many and varied: literature, art, language, politics, social and cultural history of Classical, Medieval and Modern India. My interest in contemporary Indian is focussed on the Hindu-Muslim relations leading up to the Partition in 1947 and its still highly contentious consequences. When teaching Sanskrit and classical Hindi texts, I try to highlight the close connection between literature and art in a largely visual culture.

Selected Major Publications:

  • The Seven Oceans in the Purānas and elsewhere” (forthcoming).
  • A Hindī Reference Grammar (Leiden 2000).
  • The Rtusamhāra. A new approach” (Rivista degli Studi Orientali no 75, Roma 2002).
    Solves the longstanding problem of its authorship, which will be further documented in a forthcoming monograph.
  • Review articles of the Princeton Rāmāyana translation project in Acta Orientalia (Copenhagen-Oslo) Volumes I-VI 1989- 2011.
  • "A Good Story Spoiled: Tulasīdāsa’s rendering of the Vālmīki Rāmāyana” in Corolla Torontonensis (Toronto 1994).
  • Le Gītagovinda. Tradition et innovation dans le kāvya (Stockholm 1977). So far the only existing monograph of one of the most famous Sanskrit love poems.

Courses Taught

  • Upper level Sanskrit courses (both literary and non-literary texts)
  • Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit
  • Hinduism and Politics
  • The History and Politics of the Hindi Language
Education: 
PhD, Université de Paris Sorbonne (Indology)
MA, Université de Paris Sorbonne (Etudes Indiennes and Linguistique Generale)
MA, Stockholm University (Comparative Literature and Indology)

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Areas of Interest: 
  • Food in medieval India – a dictionary of Sanskrit culinary terms.
  • Body care in medieval India based on the Mānasollāsa.
  • Who divided India? – reflections on the Partition of British India.

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