{"product_id":"the-mahabharata-in-global-political-and-social-thought-hardback-9781009484688","title":"The Mahabharata in Global Political and Social Thought (Hardback) 9781009484688","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Mahabharata in Global Political and Social Thought\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDemonstrates how the ancient Indian epic Mahabharata has shaped modern politics and thought across Asia and Europe.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMilinda Banerjee (Edited by), Julian Strube (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009484688, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 6 March 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e296 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 16.1 x 2.6 cm, 0.59 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe ancient Indian epic, Mahabharata, was first composed in Sanskrit and then rendered into Indian vernaculars and other Asian and European languages. This book demonstrates how the epic has shaped the birth of modern politics and thought across India, Europe, Japan, China, Thailand, Iran, and the Arab world. It draws on methodologies of global intellectual and religious history. The contributing authors are specialists on various world-regions. They reveal how kings and peasants, statesmen and revolutionaries, intellectuals, and activists, have invoked the epic to forge their political visions over the past centuries. The epic has thus contributed to state formation, nationalism, as well as the decolonization and democratization of the modern world. This book helps us understand the non-Eurocentric roots of modern political and social ideas, in India and across Asia and Europe. We thereby understand the global origins of contemporary politics, society, and democracy.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e A Note on Transliteration\u003cbr\u003e Introduction Milinda Banerjee and Julian Strube\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Mahabharata and the Making of Modern India Milinda Banerjee\u003cbr\u003e 2. 'Epic' Past, 'Modern' Present: The Mahabharata and Modern Nationalism in Colonial Western India Alok Oak\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Bhagavadgita and the Gandhian Hermeneutic of Non-Violence: Globalizing Selfless Action Arkamitra Ghatak\u003cbr\u003e 4. A Nostalgia for Transcendental Closure: The Relationship between the Mahabharata and Notions of Nationalism in the Works of Friedrich Schlegel, Maithilisharan Gupt, and Jawaharlal Nehru Philipp Spernervi\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Production and Deconstruction of the 'Ideal Indian Woman' on the Basis of the Mahabharata in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries Melanie J. Müller\u003cbr\u003e 6. Rethinking Transnational Intellectual History and Epic Nationalisms through Lithographic Labour: Persian and Urdu Mahabharatas in India and Iran Amanda Lanzillo\u003cbr\u003e 7. 'Philosophical Poetry' or a 'Failed Beginning'? A Metaphilosophical Enquiry into Wilhelm von Humboldt's and G. W. F. Hegel's Perspectives on the Bhagavadgita Paulus Kaufmann\u003cbr\u003e 8. East Asian Uses of Indian Epic Literature: Refractions of the Mahabharata in Japan and China, Late Nineteenth–Early Twentieth Century Egas Moniz Bandeira\u003cbr\u003e 9. The Reception of the Mahabharata in Siam: Evolving Conceptions of Kingship David M. Malitz\u003cbr\u003e 10. Understanding Global Intellectual Exchanges through Paratexts: Wadiʿ al-Bustani's Introduction to His Arabic Translation of the Mahabharata Christopher D. Bahl and Abdallah Soufan\u003cbr\u003e About the Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History of ideas [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of ideas\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20ideas%20%5BJFCX%5D%22\"\u003eJFCX\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52501142536472,"sku":"9781009484688","price":68.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781009484688i.jpg?v=1786212267","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-mahabharata-in-global-political-and-social-thought-hardback-9781009484688","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}