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 alamkara,
theravada, yoga, ramakatha, tasawwuf, ayaramga, purana,
trika-tantra, navya-nyaya, pratyabhijna, carita, kutiyattam and
mangala kavya. These represent multiple languages such as Sanskrit,
Persian, Pali, Prakrit, Awadhi, Malayalam, Kannada, and Bengali, as
well as diverse streams, from Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, and Sufi
Islam to logic, yoga, tantra, theatre, and poetics. Retelling Time
questions the modern Eurocentric belief in an empty, homogenous,
abbreviated, secular and irreversible time. It proposes instead
that that premodern South Asia invested time with cultural function
and value, which ranged from the contingent to the transcendent,
the quotidian to the cosmic, the fleeting to the eternal, and the
social to the spiritual. Accordingly, time was reworked ---
stretched, melded, collapsed, recursed, rolled over, and even
extinguished. Sacred, social, aesthetic, scientific, fictional,
historical, and performative South Asian traditions are seen here
in conversation with one other, mediated by an ethical paradigm.
Their collective challenge is to decolonize our ways of knowing and
being. This book will be of interest to scholars of South Asian
history, philosophy of history, anthropology, literature, Sanskrit,
post colonial studies, cultural studies, studies of temporality and
of the Global South.
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