Revisiting Abhijnanasakuntalam: Love, Lineage and Language in Kalidasa’s Nataka
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
9788125044192
Length
xx+327p., Illustrations; Bibliography; Index; 23cm.
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Kalidasa’s Abhijnanasakuntalam has an iconic status in the history of Indian literatures. It is a tale of love found, forgotten and restored between Dushyanta, the hero king, and Sakuntala, an innocent maiden.
Bringing together linguists, literary critics, historians, Indologists and Sanskritists, Revisiting Abhijnanasakuntalam analyses the play as more than just a figment of imagination as a rich terrain for exploring links between culture, history and ...
