Re-ending the Mahābhārata

Re-ending the MahābhārataOffers a fresh perspective on the Mahbhrata based on an exploration of its ending, the Svargrohaa parvan. This book challenges two prevalent assumptions about the Mahbhrata: that its narrative is inherently incapable of achieving a conclusion and that its ending, the Svargrohaa parva, is an extraneous part of the text. While the exegetic traditions have largely tended to suppress, ignore, or overlook the importance of this final section, Shalom argues

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its systematic character

Paul Brenner suggests that treating life's events and everyday activities as a game would lead to a more socially functional and effective society

the author demonstrates how regimes continue to constrain the organization of Islamic opposition even after the advent of political liberalization

A sustained and systematic attempt to draw together political and historical scholarship on the Sunningdale experiment and the Ulster Workers' Council strike (1973-4) in Northern Ireland

Threads of labour examines the effects of ruination and loss of community in an ex-industrial village

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are shown to have been premeditated in a most important manner by these German Romantics

Draws upon the situated work of professional coffee tasters in over a dozen countries to shed light on the methods we use to convert subjective experience into objective knowledge

Documents how the premodern techniques of narrating the past in South Asia were deeply transformed by colonial modernity

" Gratton argues that sovereignty underwent profound changes during modernity

leading to more exposure to violence