1st Edition
Religion, Narrative and Public Imagination in South Asia Past and Place in the Sanskrit Mahabharata
By James Hegarty
Copyright 2012
224 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
240 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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The Sanskrit Mahabharata is one of the greatest works of world literature and pivotal for the understanding of both Hindu traditions and wider society in ancient, medieval and modern South Asia. This book presents a new synthesis of philological, anthropological and cognitive-linguistic method and theory in relation to the study of narrative text by focusing on the form and function of the... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Ritual, Text and Modernity in the Sanskrit Mahabharata 3. Constructing the Significant Past 4. Constructing Significant Places 5. The Mahabharata in early South Asia 6. Conclusions: Towards an Old Orientation to Philology 7. Epilogue: The Construction of the Significant Past in the Hindi Televisual Mahabharat
Biography
James Hegarty is Senior Lecturer in Indian Religions at Cardiff University, UK. His primary research interest is in the role of religious narrative in the cultural and intellectual history of South Asia. He has published numerous papers on Sanskrit and vernacular narrative materials.
