|   | Title: | A Rasa Reader: Classical Indian Aesthetics. | 
        
            | Series: | Historical Sourcebooks in Classical Indian Thought | 
        
            | Price: | US$37.00 | 
        
            | Author: | Pollock, Sheldon | 
        
            | ISBN: | 978-0-231-17391-9 | Binding: | Paperback | Hardback |  |  |  | 
        
            | Pub Date: | 201801 | Availability: | A | Illust: |  | 
        
            | Publisher(Imprint): | Columbia U.P. | 
        
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            | Description: | This book is the first in any language to follow the evolution of rasa, or taste, the word Indian intellectuals chose to describe art's aesthetics. A Rasa Reader ranges from rasa's origins in dramaturgical thought?a concept for the stage?to its flourishing in literary thought?a concept for the page. |