Will to Argue: Studies in Late Colonial and Post-colonial Controversies
AUTHOR : Sumanyu Satpathy
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- AUTHOR : Sumanyu Satpathy
- HB ISBN : 978-93-86552-28-0
- POD ISBN : 978-93-86552-29-7
- Year : 2017
- Extent : 232
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- AUTHOR – Sumanyu Satpathy
- ISBN – 978-93-86552-28-0
- Year – 2017
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Will to Argue: We live in a world of controversies, and often wonder what controversies do to a culture. Do they interpret it? Can one conceive of them as a genre? Can they offer serious diagnostic tools to the social scientist or the cultural historian? In this pioneering study, the author addresses these and similar questions, and examines if and how controversies help us understand the ways in which forms of nationalism and identity formation imagine, shape, and construct themselves. Focusing on major controversies at local and the national levels during colonial and post colonial times, he deals with seemingly unconnected subjects, such as language, khadi, sexuality, textuality and authorship, and also personalities as diverse as Sarala Das, Radhanath Ray, Fakir Mohan, Tagore, Gandhi and Premchand.
This book will be of lasting pertinence to not just scholars of a literary culture but also linguists that generates a multilingual public discourse embedded with archival influence.
The Author
Sumanyu Satpathy, currently a Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, is a former Professor of English, University of Delhi. His areas of interest are literary modernism, Indian literary culture, Odisha studies, queer studies and literary nonsense. He was Distinguished Scholar at the Institute for Advance Studies, La Trobe University (Australia) in 2007. His publications include Re-viewing Reviewing: The Reception of Modernist Poetry in the Times Literary Supplement (1912-1932), Southern Post Colonialisms, Reading Literary Culture and The Tenth Rasa: An Anthology of Indian Nonsense. He has published numerous research articles in international journals.
Dana: Reciprocity and Patronage in Buddhism explores the concept of dana in Buddhism as a primarily rational and ethical phenomenon and examines its superimposing, mythic, and cultic dimensions. Scholars who have contributed to this volume have attempted to place dana in the context of contemporary religious traditions in relation to various sects and traditions of Buddhism, re-examining established hypotheses and challenging extreme opinions that are prone to exaggeration. It elucidates evolution, transition, and maturity of the process of dana in different phases of Buddhism. The Buddha introduced the practice of dana to sustain his monastic community. Subsequently its character transformed with the division of Buddhism into different sects and traditions. Some of the papers specifically deal with ideological differences and changes in nature of reciprocity, patronage, and possessions.
This book will be of lasting pertinence to not just scholars of Philosophy, Religious Studies and Cultural Studies, but also lay readers interested in Buddhist religious practices tracing it from medieval times in India.
The Author
Anand Singh is Associate Professor and Dean of School of Buddhist Studies and Civilization, Gautam Buddha University, Greater Noida, India. He has authored Buddhism at Sarnath (2014), Pracheen Bhartiya Dharma (2010), and Tourism in Ancient India (2005). He has published over 25 research papers and articles in various international and national journals. He has visited many countries like China, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Sri Lanka for invited lectures and conferences.