Exploring Agency in the Mahabharata Ethical and Political Dimensions of Dharma 1st Edition by Sibesh Chandra Bhattacharya, Vrinda Dalmiya, Gangeya Mukherji ISBN 9781138709201 1138709204

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ISBN 10:  1138709204

ISBN 13:  9781138709201

Author:  Sibesh Chandra Bhattacharya, Vrinda Dalmiya, Gangeya Mukherji

The Mahabharata, one of the major epics of India, is a sourcebook complete by itself as well as an open text constantly under construction. This volume looks at transactions between its modern discourses and ancient vocabulary. Located amid conversations between these two conceptual worlds, the volume grapples with the epic’s problematisation of dharma or righteousness, and consequently, of the ideal person and the good life through a cluster of issues surrounding the concept of agency and action. Drawing on several interdisciplinary approaches, the essays reflect on a range of issues in the Mahabharata, including those of duty, motivation, freedom, selfhood, choice, autonomy, and justice, both in the context of philosophical debates and their ethical and political ramifications for contemporary times.

This book will be of interest to scholars and researchers engaged with philosophy, literature, religion, history, politics, culture, gender, South Asian studies, and Indology. It will also appeal to the general reader interested in South Asian epics and the Mahabharata.

Table of contents: 

Introduction: To Do

I: ACTION

Mahabharata. Itihasa. Agency

In Search of Genuine Agency: A Review of Action, Freedom and Karma in the Mahābhārata

The Theory of Karma in the Mahābhārata

Karmayoga and the Vexed Moral Agent

II: ACTOR

Complexities in the Agency for Violence: A Look at the Mahabharata

Irresolution and Agency: The Case of Yudhishthira

Can the Subhuman Speak or Act? Agency of Sagacious Serpents, Benevolent Birds, Rational Rodents, and a Mocking Mongoose in the Mahābhārata

Textual–Sexual Transitions: The Reification of Women in the Mahabharata

Ekalavya and the Possibility of Learning

III: EPIC AGENCY AND RETELLINGS

Tagore’s Readings of the Mahabharata

Answerability between Lived Life and Living Text: Chronotopicity in finding Agency in the Mahabharata

Drona in the Ekalavya Episode in Sārala Mahābhārata

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