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A Carnival of Parting - The Tales of King Bharthari and King Gopi Chand as Sung and Told by Madhu Natisar Nath of Ghatiyali, Rajasthan (Hardcover)
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A Carnival of Parting - The Tales of King Bharthari and King Gopi Chand as Sung and Told by Madhu Natisar Nath of Ghatiyali, Rajasthan (Hardcover)
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Madhu Natisar Nath is a Rajasthani farmer with no formal schooling.
He is also a singer, a musician and a storyteller. At the centre of
"A Carnival of Parting" are Madhu Nath's oral performances of two
linked tales about the legendary Indian kings, Bharthari of Ujjain
and Gopi Chand of Bengal. Both characters, while still in their
prime, leave thrones and families to be initiated as yogis - a
process rich in adventure and melodrama, one that offers unique
insights into popular Hinduism's view of world renunciation. Ann
Grodzins Gold presents these living oral epic traditions as flowing
narratives, transmitting to Western readers the pleasures, moods
and interactive dimensions of a village bard's performance.;The
tales are most profoundly concerned, Gold argues, with human rather
than divine realities. In an afterword, she highlights their
thematic emphases on politics, love and death. Madhu Nath's vital
colloquial telling of Gopi Chand and Bharthari's stories depicts
renunciation as inevitable and interpersonal attachments as doomed,
yet celebrates human existence as a "carnival of parting".
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