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Retelling Time: Alternative Temporalities from Premodern South Asia book cover

1st Edition

Retelling Time Alternative Temporalities from Premodern South Asia

Edited By Shonaleeka Kaul Copyright 2022
232 Pages
by Routledge India

232 Pages
by Routledge India

232 Pages
by Routledge India
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Retelling Time challenges the hegemony of colonial modernity over academic disciplines and over ways in which we think about something as fundamental as time. It reclaims a bouquet of alternative practices of time from premodern South Asia, which stem from worldviews that have been marginalized. These practices relate to a range of classical and vernacular genres including alaṃkāra ,... Read more
Preface 1. Temporality and Its Discontents Or Why Time Needs to be Retold 2. The Moment in Which the River Rests: Time in Early Buddhism 3. Proleptic Pasts and Involuted Causalities in Kūṭiyāṭṭam 4. Taking, Making, and Leaving: The Many Times of the Āyāraṃga 5. The Guru and the Mantra: Transcending Time in the Philosophy and Practice of Yoga 6. Time is Born of his Eyelashes: Purāṇic Measurement and Conceptions of Time 7. On Rasa and Recursivity: Ethics and Aesthetics of Time in Sanskrit Poetics (Alaṃkāraśāstra) 8. Sun, Consciousness and Time: The Way of Time and the Timeless in Kashmir Shaivism 9. Time is in the Moment (waqt) and also in Eternity (dahr): Reflections from Sufi Islam 10. Concentric Worlds: Space and Time in the Pratyabhijñā school and the Abhinavabhāratī 11. Corporal Time to Cognitive Time: Kannada Wordscape in Transition 10th to 13th centuries 12. (Un)doing Space and Time: ‘Doing’ the Rāmcaritmānas 13. The Ontology of Now: Reading Time through 16th and 17th century Nyāya philosophy 14. ‘A Farrago of Legendary Nonsense’: Myth, Time and History in the Keralolpatti 15. The Knots of Time: Reading Nostalgia in Bengali Literature from 13th to the 19th century

Biography

Shonaleeka Kaul is a cultural and intellectual historian of early South Asia, specializing in working with Sanskrit texts. She is Professor at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. She has also been the Malathy Singh Distinguished Lecturer in South Asian Studies at Yale University, USA; the Jan Gonda Fellow in Indology at Leiden University, The Netherlands; and the DAAD Professor of History at the South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, Germany.　

She is the author of Imagining the Urban: Sanskrit and the City in Early India　(2010) and The Making of Early Kashmir: Landscape and Identity in the Rajatarangini (2018). She has edited four volumes including Cultural History of Early South Asia: A Reader (2014) and Eloquent Spaces: Meaning and Community in Early Indian Architecture (2019).

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