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Hardbound. Condition: As New. New. Contents Acknowledgements. Introduction. I. Manuscripts context and relevance 1. Rare Indian manuscripts in Asian Countries/Lokesh Chandra. 2. Writing and the use of books in the age of Persian manuscripts/Irfan Habib. 3. Sanskrit knowledge on the Eve of colonialism and at the dawn of globalization/Sheldon Pollock. 4. Is the unpublished manuscript heritage of India relevant to contemporary academia/Kapila Vatsyayan. II. Manuscripts and oral traditions 1. Writing and Aphasia reflections on India's oral traditions/G.N. Devy. III. Textual Traditions 1. Bhakti and Tamil Textual tradition/R. Champakalakshmi. 2. A tribute to the text and context of the Natyasastra/Maria Krzysztof Byrski. 3. Glimpses of India's medical history/M.S. Valiathan. IV. Knowledge and beyond 1. Anthropos measuring Atomos and cosmos some reflections/D.P. Chattopadhyaya. Note on contributors. The National Mission for Manuscripts was established as a five year mission in February 2003 by the Ministry of Tourism and Culture Government of India with the purpose of locating documenting preserving and disseminating the knowledge content of India's handwritten manuscripts said to be the largest collection of handwritten knowledge documents anywhere in the world. While looking ahead to reconnect with the knowledge of the past the mission is in the process of trying to re contextualize the knowledge contained in manuscripts for the present and the future generations. The mission launched a lecture series titled Tattvabodha in January 2005 since then a monthly lecture series in Delhi and other centres in the country Tattvabodha has established itself as a forum for intellectual discourse debate and discussion. Eminent scholars representing different aspects of India's knowledge systems have addressed and interacted with highly receptive audiences over the course of the past year and a half. The present volume comprises the first ten lectures under Tattvabodha. A glance at the list of contributors will reveal that the mission has had the privilege of hosting the finest exponents of Indian culture and the compilation of their lectures makes for invaluable literature. 164 pp.…

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Paperback. Condition: New. Authored by a leading exponent of the form, this book provides a clear guide to Kathakali, exploring its origin, evolution, and characteristics and the ways it has adapted for a 21st-century audience. Kathakali is an introduction to this vibrant mode of dance drama, which comes from Kerala in southwest India and combines poetry, music, rhythm, and dance to represent stories of gods, demons, and humans. Originating in the latter part of the 16th century, today Kathakali commands attention and involves practitioners from around the world. Largely drawing its stories from the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, it integrates music, dance, grand makeup, and costume to evoke the epic universe. This book illuminates how Kathakali combines associated literary texts, performative conventions, and practices from local and pan-Indian contexts. The actors use their whole body-deploying complex dance movements, interpretive gestures, and highly developed facial expressions-as a site to depict, elaborate, and interpret action. Encapsulating the world of Kathakali, its performative grammar, and the aesthetic theories that underpin it, this book examines its history as one of continual change.The book traces the distinctive features of Kathakali, which is sometimes tightly structured with fixed conventions, and sometimes fluid enough to incorporate imaginative flights of fancy. It assesses Kathakali's cultural legacy and charts how the form has changed over the centuries. It also includes translations of extracts from poems, plays, and performance manuals, as well as interviews with actors and cultural historians.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Contents Foreword. Introduction. 1. Incarnation (Avataram). 2. Suppression of Kaliya (Kaliyamardanam). 3. The divine dance of Rasa (Rasakrida). 4. The slaying of Kamsa (Kamsavadham). 5. Marriage (Svayamvaram). 6. Battle with Bana (Banayuddham). 7. The slaying of Vivida (Vividavadham). 8. Ascent to heaven (Svargarohanam). The Krsnagiti is a lyrical and devotional poem composed by Manaveda Zamorin of Kozhikode (17 cent. A.D.). The poem composed in Sanskrit celebrates the life of Krsna from his incarnation (avatara) to his ascent to Heaven (svargarohana). Composed in eight parts and perhaps modelled on Jayadeva's Gitagovinda and written in the form of a monologue addressed to Krsna the poem is suffused with the sentiment of spiritual devotion (bhakti). It enumerates the story of the Lord and eulogises His lilas on the earth. Moreover it is the source text for Krishnattam the votive dance drama affiliated to the Guruvayur Temple in Central Kerala. The Krsnagiti makes a significant contribution of Kerala to the corpus of Sanskrit devotional literature in India. The sentiment of bhakti which pervades the entire poem assumes unique lyrical and dramatic power and invests Krishnattam with immense histrionic possibilities. The dual experience of the poem as literary work and as a source text for a live performance tradition makes it interesting for the reader and the spectator alike. The edition published here presents the text of the Krsnagiti in Devanagari for the first time with a lucid English translation. 350 pp.…

Paperback. Condition: New. Authored by a leading exponent of the form, this book provides a clear guide to Kathakali, exploring its origin, evolution, and characteristics and the ways it has adapted for a 21st-century audience. Kathakali is an introduction to this vibrant mode of dance drama, which comes from Kerala in southwest India and combines poetry, music, rhythm, and dance to represent stories of gods, demons, and humans. Originating in the latter part of the 16th century, today Kathakali commands attention and involves practitioners from around the world. Largely drawing its stories from the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, it integrates music, dance, grand makeup, and costume to evoke the epic universe. This book illuminates how Kathakali combines associated literary texts, performative conventions, and practices from local and pan-Indian contexts. The actors use their whole body-deploying complex dance movements, interpretive gestures, and highly developed facial expressions-as a site to depict, elaborate, and interpret action. Encapsulating the world of Kathakali, its performative grammar, and the aesthetic theories that underpin it, this book examines its history as one of continual change.The book traces the distinctive features of Kathakali, which is sometimes tightly structured with fixed conventions, and sometimes fluid enough to incorporate imaginative flights of fancy. It assesses Kathakali's cultural legacy and charts how the form has changed over the centuries. It also includes translations of extracts from poems, plays, and performance manuals, as well as interviews with actors and cultural historians.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Authored by a leading exponent of the form, this book provides a clear guide to Kathakali, exploring its origin, evolution, and characteristics and the ways it has adapted for a 21st-century audience. Kathakali is an introduction to this vibrant mode of dance drama, which comes from Kerala in southwest India and combines poetry, music, rhythm, and dance to represent stories of gods, demons, and humans. Originating in the latter part of the 16th century, today Kathakali commands attention and involves practitioners from around the world. Largely drawing its stories from the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, it integrates music, dance, grand makeup, and costume to evoke the epic universe. This book illuminates how Kathakali combines associated literary texts, performative conventions, and practices from local and pan-Indian contexts. The actors use their whole bodydeploying complex dance movements, interpretive gestures, and highly developed facial expressionsas a site to depict, elaborate, and interpret action. Encapsulating the world of Kathakali, its performative grammar, and the aesthetic theories that underpin it, this book examines its history as one of continual change.The book traces the distinctive features of Kathakali, which is sometimes tightly structured with fixed conventions, and sometimes fluid enough to incorporate imaginative flights of fancy. It assesses Kathakalis cultural legacy and charts how the form has changed over the centuries. It also includes translations of extracts from poems, plays, and performance manuals, as well as interviews with actors and cultural historians. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Hardcover. Condition: New. A comparative study of classical Indian and Western drama with special reference to comedy reveals interesting similarities and differences between the two in respect of aesthetic theory theatric practice and elements of dramatic compositionThe common ground between Western and Sanskrit theatre relates to the use of stage-devices like pantomime off-stage voices soliloquy and play within the play as well as histrionic elements like dance and music and the exaggerated costume and make up of the characters But apart from these Indian drama as outlined in Natya Sastra and maintained by stage performances through the centuries is markedly different from the Western because while the latter mostly depends on realistic devices the former is basically a stylized mode of theatre which caters to an idealized audience In Western drama the interest of the audience in watching a play lies in the effective rendering of the dialogue so that the verbal text is of primary value But in traditional Sanskrit dramatic practice the actor is encouraged to resort to an elaborate method of improvisation using vocal and or gestural expression supplemented by the appropriate movements of the face and other parts of the body as well as by musical accompaniment The written text has therefore only a minimal importance hereThe method of dramatic composition of the comedies in both Western and Sanskrit traditions also bears striking similarities and divergences These may be seen in the methods of employing plot situation and themes as well as in the creation of character and the use of language In the present study the comedies of Shakespeare and Bhasa have been selected for closer analysis because they seem to encompass within their respective spheres a wide variety of levels and interpretations of Western and Indian comedy The two dramatists also seem to share a common underlying philosophy of comedy namely a joyous involvement in the process of living 168p.…

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