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When the Goddess was a Woman
Author | : Alf Hiltebeitel |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 673 |
Release | : 2011-07-27 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004193804 |
Bringing together Hiltebeitel's major essays on the the Mah?bh?rata, the R?m?ya?a, and the south Indian cults of Draupad? and K?tt???avar along with new articles written especially for this collection, this two volume work offers a comprehensive re-reading of the Indian epic tradition by the foremost scholar in Indian epic studies today.
Rajam Krishnan and Indian Feminist Hermeneutics
Author | : Sarada Thallam |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 155 |
Release | : 2017-01-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1443864919 |
This book interprets the feminist theories of Rajam Krishnan, a doyen of Tamil literature, who has been a forerunner of many contemporary ideologies. The text provides the much-needed tools for the vast corpus of contemporary research in the global domain of Indian women’s literature. To interpret literature with non-native theoretical models may not be dispensed as an erroneous fallacy, but the fact remains that there prevails an oft-felt, unarticulated need for our own native theories which may imbue a greater elucidation of our culture, ethos, epistemes and practices.
The Cult of Draupadi, Volume 2
Author | : Alf Hiltebeitel |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 564 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780226340470 |
This is the first volume of a projected three-volume work on the little-known South Indian folk cult of the goddess Draupadi and on the classical epic, the Mahabharata, that the cult brings to life in mythic, ritual, and dramatic forms. Draupadi, the chief heroine of the Sanskrit Mahabharata, takes on many unexpected guises in her Tamil cult, but her dimensions as a folk goddess remain rooted in a rich interpretive vision of the great epic. By examining the ways that the cult of Draupadi commingles traditions about the goddess and the epic, Alf Hiltebeitel shows the cult to be singularly representative of the inner tensions and working dynamics of popular devotional Hinduism.
Panchali's Pledge
Author | : Subramania Bharati |
Publisher | : Hachette India |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2013-02-10 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9350095300 |
Honoured at a public function when he was a mere boy of eleven with the title 'Bharati' (one blessed by Saraswati, the Goddess of Learning), C. Subramania Bharati (1882-1921) is renowned as the herald of the renaissance in Tamil literature. The simplicity and lyricism that marked his poetry reflect a clear shift in sensibility and craft from the classical tradition, which had adhered to strictures of style, imagery and language for over 2000 years. Panchali's Pledge is the English translation of Bharati's seminal work, Panchali Sabadham, which reimagines the pivotal Game of Dice incident in the Mahabharata, where coerced into playing a game of dice by Duryodhana and Sakuni, Yudhisthira, the eldest of the Pandavas, stakes and loses his kingdom, his wealth, his brothers and finally Draupadi, leading to her disrobing and her rescue by the divine intervention of Lord Krishna. Enraged at the quiet indifference of those present in the assembly at her plight, Draupadi finally takes a pledge to avenge her ignominy with the blood of the Kauravas. Bharati wrote and published the first of the two-part minor epic in 1912 while living in the French territory of Pondicherry to escape British persecution. It was intended as a political allegory to the ongoing freedom movement and as an affirmation of the latent power in women. Usha Rajagopalan's translation seeks to complement what Bharati himself set out to do with the original text: to 'create an epic using simple phrases, a simple style, easily understood prosody and rhythm which the common man appreciates.'
The Book of Vows
Author | : Amit Majmudar |
Publisher | : Penguin Random House India Private Limited |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2023-08-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9357082395 |
This is the first part of a trilogy on the Mahabharata. Grounded in the original Sanskrit epic, Majmudar recreates the ancient epic for a contemporary audience. It is his finest work yet and is one of the most accessible, magical and unputdownable retellings of the Mahabharata. The Book of Vows will be followed by The Book of Discoveries and The Book of Killings.
Indian Woman, Feminism and Women’s Liberation
Author | : Saji Narayanan CK |
Publisher | : Indus Scrolls Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2022-12-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Capitalism and Communism, the progenies of the semitic culture, have given birth to two different streams of women’s Liberation. These streams, which have stormed western society and communist groups, have now actively intruded into the Indian socio-political milieu. The moment these concepts encounter with Indian realities ,they display their inherent contradictions and limitations. But seldom an Indian alternative to such views is discussed. This book is an attempt to understand the Indian approach through a comparative study aimed at addressing the issues related to the future women
Passions of the Tongue
Author | : Sumathi Ramaswamy |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2023-09-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0520918797 |
Why would love for their language lead several men in southern India to burn themselves alive in its name? Passions of the Tongue analyzes the discourses of love, labor, and life that transformed Tamil into an object of such passionate attachment, producing in the process one of modern India's most intense movements for linguistic revival and separatism. Sumathi Ramaswamy suggests that these discourses cannot be contained within a singular metanarrative of linguistic nationalism and instead proposes a new analytic, "language devotion." She uses this concept to track the many ways in which Tamil was imagined by its speakers and connects these multiple imaginings to their experience of colonial and post-colonial modernity. Focusing in particular on the transformation of the language into a goddess, mother, and maiden, Ramaswamy explores the pious, filial, and erotic aspects of Tamil devotion. She considers why, as its speakers sought political and social empowerment, metaphors of motherhood eventually came to dominate representations of the language.
Mahabharatha
Author | : Gowri Raman |
Publisher | : Blue Rose Publishers |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2020-06-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
In India we have, many epics and puranas. Mahabharata is one among them. It consists of 18 Parvas. It has 100000 verses. It was told by the great sage Vyasa and written by the Lord Ganesha himself. Mostly the essence of Mahabharata and Gita are transferred from one generation to the next mainly as stories told by the elders to their off springs.