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Modern Sanskrit: Dialogues across Times, Spaces, and Religions book cover

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Modern Sanskrit Dialogues across Times, Spaces, and Religions

Edited By Laurie L. Patton, Charles S. Preston Copyright 2027
336 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book explores aspects of Sanskrit cultural production from the last two centuries, paying attention to Sanskrit’s inherently dialogical nature and pluralism within Indian history. It demonstrates how the use of classical Sanskrit in the present creates conversations with established practices of the past, and suggests that the decision to use Sanskrit at all is, in a postcolonial world, to... Read more

Introduction: Bringing Modern Sanskrit into Dialogue  Part One: The Polyphonies of Modern Sanskrit  1. ‘India Has Utterly Changed’: Shivaji and Modernity in a Colonial Sanskrit Novel  2. Gandhian History in Epic Style: Kshama Rao’s Satyāgraha Gītā  3. An Epic 20th-century Sanskrit Life: Baladev Upadhyaya and Srinivas Rath’s Baladevacarita-mahākāvyam  Part Two: Modern Sanskrit in Performance   4. Locating Sanskrit: Dialogues of Village and City in Twentieth-Century Sanskrit Drama  5. Performing Shakuntala in Sanskrit: Between Text and Performance  6. A ‘Refuge’ for Sanskrit Drama: Amateur Kutiyattam in Contemporary Kerala  Part Three: Modern Sanskrit in Interreligious Dialogue  7. Pravartanīyā Sadvidyā Bhuvi: Sanskrit Learning in a Gujarati Religious Community  8. Modern Buddhist Sanskrit in Sri Lanka: A Study of Davuldena Gñānissara’s Yatidūtam  9. Muni Jambūvijaya and the Jaisalmer Bhaṇḍār: Tracing a Jain Monk’s Manuscript Preservation Efforts  Part Four: Sanskrit, Identity, and the Politics of Recovery  10. Imagining Sanskritland: Shapeshifting “Sanskrit-speaking” Villages and Indian Census Data  11. Hidden Mūrtis: The Sanskrit Students of Radcliffe College  Index

Biography

Laurie L. Patton is President of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and has served as President of the American Academy of Religion. She was previously President of Middlebury College, Dean of Arts & Sciences and Durden Professor of Religion at Duke University, and before that Charles Howard Candler Professor of Religion at Emory University, USA.

Charles S. Preston has a PhD in History of Religions from the University of Chicago Divinity School, USA.

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