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Exploring agency in the Mahهabhهarata : ethical and political dimensions of Dharma

Bhattacharya, Sibesh Chandra, editor, Dalmiya, Vrinda, editor, Mukherji, Gangeya, editor

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\"The Mahهabhهarata, 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 Mahهabhهarata, 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 Mahهabhهarata.\"--Page i.

• Publisher: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
• Subject: Mahهabhهarata Criticism, interpretation, etc. / Dharma. / Hindu ethics. / Hindu philosophy.
• ISBN: 1138709204, 9781138709201

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
BL1138.26.E97 2018	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE