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Hammira - Chapters in Imagination, Time, History (Hardcover): Aditya Malik Hammira - Chapters in Imagination, Time, History (Hardcover)
Aditya Malik
R3,524 Discovery Miles 35 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book is about the legendary Rajput chieftain Hammira Chauhan, the king of the impregnable fortress of Ranthambore in southern Rajasthan who died in 1301 CE after a monumental battle against Alauddin Khalji, the sultan of Delhi. This singular event reverberates through time to the point of creating a historical and cultural region that crystallizes through copious texts composed in different genres and languages (Persian, Sanskrit, Hindi, Rajasthani, English) in shifting religious and political contexts, medieval as well as modern. The main poetical-historical work composed in Sanskrit, the Hammira-Mahakavya ('great poem') by the Jaina poet Nayachandra Suri (15th century), is propelled by a dream in which the dead king urges the poet to write about his deeds. Can history with its preoccupation for the factual, begin in a dream? What does it mean to think about history and time via the imagination? Is time, whether past, present or future linked to imagination? Do imagination, time, and history arise together? What are the implications of thinking of history as something that appears in our experience? What does it mean to write a history as a historical being in whom diverse temporalities intertwine in the here and now?

Nectar Gaze and Poison Breath - An Analysis and Translation of the Rajasthani Oral Narrative of Devnarayan (Hardcover, New):... Nectar Gaze and Poison Breath - An Analysis and Translation of the Rajasthani Oral Narrative of Devnarayan (Hardcover, New)
Aditya Malik
R5,724 Discovery Miles 57 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book offers a detailed study of the oral narrative of Shri Devnarayan along with the first English translation of this popular Rajasthani folk narrative. The narrative extolling the deeds of Lord Devnarayan is performed by itinerant singers during all night vigils in front of a 9-meter long, elaborately painted cloth scroll that depicts scenes and characters from the story. Aditya Malik uses the narrative to explore and ask a range of innovative questions relevant to the study of Indian folk culture and Hinduism as a whole: How is orality conceptualized and practiced? What is the relationship between spoken and visual signs? How do Devnarayan's devotees create multiple discourses concerning religion, community, and history within and though the medium of the narrative? Malik's analysis suggests that the narrative provides a framework for establishing linkages between different communities, past and present, spoken word and visual image, as well as contending religious ideologies. His interpretation is interspersed with excerpts from interviews with devotees and singers, other tales and texts, and observations from his field research that together invoke the worlds created by the narrative.

Das Puskara-Mahatmya - Ein Religionswissenschaftlicher Beitrag Zum Wallfahrtsbegriff in Indien. Erorterung, Text, Ubersetzung... Das Puskara-Mahatmya - Ein Religionswissenschaftlicher Beitrag Zum Wallfahrtsbegriff in Indien. Erorterung, Text, Ubersetzung (German, Paperback)
Aditya Malik
R2,191 Discovery Miles 21 910 Out of stock
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