Rethinking India's Oral and Classical Epics Draupadi among Rajputs, Muslims, and Dalits

Name: Rethinking India's Oral and Classical Epics Draupadi among Rajputs, Muslims, and Dalits
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ISBN: 9780226340517

ISBN-10: 0226340511

ISBN-13: 9780226340517

Edition: 1999

Authors: Alf Hiltebeitel

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Throughout India and Southeast Asia, ancient classical epics—the Mahabharata and the Ramayana—continue to exert considerable cultural influence. Rethinking India's Oral and Classical Epics offers an unprecedented exploration into South Asia's regional epic traditions. Using his own fieldwork as a starting point, Alf Hiltebeitel analyzes how the oral tradition of the south Indian cult of the goddess Draupadi and five regional martial oral epics compare with one another and tie in with the Sanskrit epics. Drawing on literary theory and cultural studies, he reveals the shared subtexts of the Draupadi cult Mahabharata and the five oral epics, and shows how the traditional plots are twisted…

Book details

List price: $87.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 574
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.870
Language: English



List of Maps and Tables


List of Plates


Acknowledgments


Conventions



Introduction



Oral Epics



Classical and Oral Epics



Epic Development and the "Real Hero"



Against Death and Deification



Bhakti, Regionality, and the Goddess



Back to the Frames



The Elder Brothers and the Heroes of Palnadu



Births of the Heroes



Marriage and Virginity



The Virgin's Blessing



Campuka's and Anapotu Raju's Stratagems



The Virgin's Anger



Impalements



Satis, Revivals, Salvation



Transformations of Dasara



The Epic ofPabuji



Births of the Heroes



Marriage and Virginity



The Virgin's Blessing



Dhebo's Intervention



The Virgin's Anger



Impalements



Satis and Salvation



Transformations of Dasara



OpeningAlha



Portions and Incarnations



Sons of Devaki



Frame Stories and Divine Interventions



The Maro Feud



The Nine-Lakh Chain



Treasures



Bela Demands Draupadi's Jewels



The Chain



Bela's Wedding



Bela's Homebringing



Dasara



The Death of Malkhan



Sprouts



Bela's Tour



The Story of Krsnamsa



What Kind of Text?



The Muslim Captivity of Udal



Solar and Lunar Lines



The Agnivamsa



Defending Folk Hinduism



Kuruksetra II



Divine Plan, Master Plan



The Establishment of Kali and the Last of the Little Kings



Duryodhana's Return



Time-Routes through theKrsnamsacarita



How Do We Get to Where We Are?



The Buddhists and the Agnivamsa



Vikramaditya's Era



Puranic Nationalism



Their Name Is Legion



Rajputs and Afghans



Rajputs and Afghans Looking South



The Egalitarian Warband



Warrior-Ascetics and Wandering Minstrels



The Band of Raja Desing



The Story and Its Settings



The Printed Ballad and an Oral Telling



Rajput-Afghan Heroism Goes South



Barbarika, Aravan, Kuttantavar: Furthering the Case of the Severed Head



Reopening the Case



Tracking Barbarika



A Permeable Divide



The Myth of the Agnivamsa



Variants



Themes



Agnikulas, North and South



Draupadi Becomes Bela, Bela Becomes Sati



Disposing of the Kaurava Widows



Draupadi BecomesBela



High and Low Satis



Bela Becomes Sati



Bairagarh



Questions


Questions


Abbreviations


Bibliography


General Index