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ANCIENT INDIA CULTURE OF CONTRADICTIONS

Autor Upinder Singh
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 4 oct 2021
Upinder Singh urges us to abandon simplistic stereotypes and instead think of ancient India in terms of the coexistence of five powerful contradictions-between social inequality and promises of universal salvation, the valorization of desire and detachment, goddess worship and misogyny, violence and non-violence, and religious debate and conflict. She does so using a vast array of sources including religious and philosophical texts, epics, poetry, plays, technical treatises, satire, biographies, and inscriptions, as well as the material and aesthetic evidence of archaeology and art from sites across the subcontinent. Singh's scholarly but highly accessible style, clear explanation, and balanced interpretations offer an understanding of the historian's craft and unravel the many threads of what we think of as ancient Indian culture. This is not a dead or forgotten past but one invoked in different contexts even today. Further, in spite of enormous historical changes over the centuries, the contradictions discussed here still remain.
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ISBN-13: 9789390652617
ISBN-10: 9390652618
Pagini: 286
Dimensiuni: 161 x 240 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.6 kg
Editura: Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.

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CULTURE OF CONTRADICTIONS.