{"product_id":"25137-reflections-and-variations-on-the-mahabharata","title":"Reflections and Variations on The Mahabharata","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor: TRS Sharma\u003cbr\u003eEminent Contributors\/\u003cbr\u003eTranslator(s)\/ Editors(s): TRS Sharma\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Sahitya Akademi\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2009\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 389\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 9788126026715\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume is a collection of essays that attempts to exemplify the protean nature of Vyasa’s Mahabharata. Vyasa, apart from his being both a character and a virtual narrator who manages his narrations through several voices, had seemingly many strongly-felt moral concerns close to his heart. The essays presented here explore many a vexing question, the ethical and the epistemic concerns, issues of gender, ‘caste’ and metaphysical ‘evil’ that the epic raises.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe volume also addresses the question of how each regional language looks upon the epic as a contested site and works out its own form of appropriation, its variations in theme, plot, and character. The essays trace the interpretive changes made in different versions of the epic in other Indian languages and attempt to contribute to our sense of the epic as something composite, made up of multiple texts\/contexts, and put together under multiple perspectives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe well-focused, learned articles of this volume project some of the recent reflections and variations on the ever enigmatic, ever-haunting Mahabharata that is deeply interwoven into the culture of the land.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Many Makers, Many Texts\/Contexts\u003cbr\u003eTRS SHARMA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Human Universal in the Mahabharata\u003cbr\u003eR N DANDEKAR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSocio-Cultural Milieu of the Mahabharata: An Age of Change \u003cbr\u003eG C PANDE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArchitectonics of the Mahabharata and the Place of Legends in its Structure\u003cbr\u003eK KUNJUNNI RAJA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDvaipayana, Poet of Being and Becoming\u003cbr\u003eJ L MEHTA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Concept of Anrshamsya in the Mahabharata\u003cbr\u003eMUKUND LATH\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGenetic Episode of the Pandavas: Some Remarks\u003cbr\u003eS G KANTAWALA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eImaging Vengeance: Amba and Draupadi in the Mahabharata\u003cbr\u003eJANAKI SREEDHARAN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Concept of Apaddharma and the Moral Dilemma of Politics in the Mahabharata\u003cbr\u003eASHOK CHOUSALKAR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Mahabharata: A Reading in Political Structuring\u003cbr\u003ePRAFULLA KUMAR MOHANTY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLearning in the Labyrinth: Irony, Contingency and the question of Responsibility in the texts of the Mahabharata\u003cbr\u003eD VENKAT RAO\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhy did Bhima Wed Hidimba? A Comparative Perspective on Marriage to the Other\u003cbr\u003ePAULA RICHMAN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhose Mahabharat? A Point of View\u003cbr\u003eVRINDA NABAR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDefending the Sacred in the Age of Atrocities: On Translating Dharamvir Bharati’s Andha Yug\u003cbr\u003eALOK BHALLA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Mahabharata and the Marathi Novel: Textual Strategies\u003cbr\u003eHARISHCHANDRA THORAT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBuddhadeva Bose’s Reading of the Mahabharata\u003cbr\u003eAMIYA DEV\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDraupadi as Interpreted in Assamese Literature\u003cbr\u003eMALINEE GOSWAMI\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSarala Dasa’s Mahabharata: A Supermyth\u003cbr\u003eG K DAS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFiction and Reception: Reconstructions of the Mahabharata. In Malayalam\u003cbr\u003eP P RAVEENDRAN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne Story, Many Texts: Conceptualising a Seed Text in Epics Retold\u003cbr\u003eSREEDEVI K. NAIR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKumaravyasa Bharata: A Folk perspective\u003cbr\u003eKRISHNAMURTHY HANUR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Jhug Jaayen Vaarta Aage Ha”: Oral Versions of the Mahabharata\u003cbr\u003eC N RAMACHANDRAN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Old Konkani Bharata\u003cbr\u003eROCKY V. MIRANDA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEpic Mediations: Text, Book and Authority in the Organization of the Mahabharata\u003cbr\u003eARJUN MAHEY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes on Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"TRS Sharma \/ Sahitya Akademi \/ Paperback","offer_id":40776563654825,"sku":"25137","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/1048\/4393\/products\/25137_b180436e-3aef-4dc1-b7c9-0f6f4787cb1c.jpg?v=1625527610","url":"https:\/\/indiaclub.com\/de\/products\/25137-reflections-and-variations-on-the-mahabharata","provider":"The India Club","version":"1.0","type":"link"}