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The present volume contains fourteen selected papers in English by the late G.-D. Sontheimer and follows up on his earlier volume King of Hunters, Warriors, and Shepherds: Essays on Khandoba (Delhi 1997). The articles chosen for publication here span a wide thematic and temporal range and will be of interest to students of Hinduism . The volume contains essays on the juristic personality of Hindu deities, the history and religion of pastoral groups in the Deccan ...
The concept of the hero (vira, sura, nayaka) is of crucial importance in Indian civilization, from the Vedic to the present times. The authors of the papers in this volume include scholars of Indology, history, religion, literature, politics and anthropology. They explore the concept of the hero in written and oral sources, in different historical epochs and regions of India, from the Himalays to the South. Most of the contributions were originally written for a ...
The volume aims at examining the transformative power of performances from three perspectives: that of the performer, of the audience and of the observer. In part I, different rituals are studied from the perspective of the performers, their physical enactment and their techniques of empowering a performance and creating presence. What makes their performance meaningful, true, efficient? How do they empower a performance? Is it words, action, ...