Author: Bhandarkar Oriental Research InstitutePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
With 1918/20-1921/22 are bound Its Report. 1918/19-1921/22.
Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Poona
Author: Bhandarkar Oriental Research InstitutePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
With 1918/20-1921/22 are bound Its Report. 1918/19-1921/22.
Philology and Criticism
Author: Vishwa AdluriPublisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1783085789
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Philology and Criticism contrasts the Mahābhārata’s preservation and transmission within the Indian scribal and commentarial traditions with Sanskrit philology after 1900, as German Indologists proposed a critical edition of the Mahābhārata to validate their racial and nationalist views. Vishwa Adluri and Joydeep Bagchee show how, in contrast to the Indologists’ unscientific theories, V. S. Sukthankar assimilated the principles of neo-Lachmannian textual criticism to defend the transmitted text and its traditional reception as a work of law, philosophy and salvation. The authors demonstrate why, after the edition’s completion, no justification exists for claiming that an earlier heroic epic existed, that the Brahmans redacted the heroic epic to produce the Mahābhārata or that they interpolated “sectarian” gods such as Vis.n.u and Śiva into the work. By demonstrating how the Indologists committed technical errors, cited flawed and biased scholarship and used circular argumentation to validate their racist and anti-Semitic theories, Philology and Criticism frees readers to approach the Mahābhārata as “the principal monument of bhakti” (Madeleine Biardeau). The authoritative guide to the critical edition’s correct use and interpretation, Philology and Criticism urges South Asianists to view Hinduism as a complex debate about ontology and ethics rather than through the lenses of “Brahmanism” and “sectarianism.” It launches a new world philology—one that is plural and self-reflexive rather than Eurocentric and ahistorical.
Annals of the Bhandarkar Institute
Author: Bhandarkar Oriental Research InstitutePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Shivaji
Author: James W. LainePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199726434
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Shivaji is a well-known hero in western India. He defied Mughal power in the seventeenth century, established an independent kingdom, and had himself crowned in an orthodox Hindu ceremony. The legends of his life have become an epic story that everyone in western India knows, and an important part of the Hindu nationalists' ideology. To read Shivaji's legend today is to find expression of deeply held convictions about what Hinduism means and how it is opposed to Islam. James Laine traces the origin and development if the Shivaji legend from the earliest sources to the contemporary accounts of the tale. His primary concern is to discover the meaning of Shivaji's life for those who have composed-and those who have read-the legendary accounts of his military victories, his daring escapes, his relationships with saints. In the process, he paints a new and more complex picture of Hindu-Muslim relations from the seventeenth century to the present. He argues that this relationship involved a variety of compromises and strategies, from conflict to accommodation to nuanced collaboration. Neither Muslims nor Hindus formed clearly defined communities, says Laine, and they did not relate to each other as opposed monolithic groups. Different sub-groups, representing a range of religious persuasions, found it in their advantage to accentuate or diminish the importance of Hindu and Muslim identity and the ideologies that supported the construction of such identities. By studying the evolution of the Shivaji legend, Laine demonstrates, we can trace the development of such constructions in both pre-British and post-colonial periods.
Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute
Author: Bhandarkar Oriental Research InstitutePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
With 1918/20-1921/22 are bound Its Report. 1918/19-1921/22.
Asoka
Author: Devadatta Ramakrishna BhandarkarPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buddhism
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Lectures on the Ancient History of India
Author: Devadatta Ramakrishna BhandarkarPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Annual Bibliography of Indian Archaeology
Author: E.C.L. During CaspersPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400978227
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
When in 1925 the initiative was taken by the Kern Institute Leiden to start the publica tion of an Annual Bibliography of Indian Archaeology, the Board of the Institute could do so with confidence, as it was sure of the assistance of scholars all over the world as to the supply of publications as well as of information. With the help of this material a bibliography could be compiled by a small team of highly skilled archaeologists who could devote part of their time and attention to such a task for the benefit of their colleagues in all parts of the world. Times since then have changed, and circumstances have become less and less favourable. To find classified labour for the compilation and editing of such a bibliography has become extremely difficult, and this the more so as this work cannot be paid in accordance with the standards for this branch of classified documentation. The work has to be done as a part of the daily routine work even a scholar in today's time is expected to perform, and which he cannot but consider as being detrimental to the performing of those parts of his work, that demand the use of those qualifications that actually make him the expert.
The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Includes articles of worldwide anthropological interest.
Plastic Tagore
Author: Ranjan GhoshPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198922981
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
This book in Tagore studies offers a fresh analysis of Tagorean thought by working through the philosophy and poetics of plasticity. As a prominent figure in plastic theory,Ghoshexplores Tagore''s views on education, identity politics, environment, and literature through what he calls the 'plastic principle'. This deconstructs Tagore''s thinking on''sahitya'', ecosophy, historicity and philosophy of history, and aesthetic education and the notion of the political. Not a standard intellectual biography or historical study, this book radicalizes how we think and interpret Tagore to arrive at whatGhoshcalls Plastic Tagore. The book, thus, thinksafter yesterday.