[Reader-list] `On the Second Mahabharata' - talk by Sudipta Kaviraj

[Rajesh Ramakrishnan]

Monday, 19th May 2008


You are invited to a seminar


On the Second Mahabharata:

Rasa, Aesthetics and Meanings of the Epic

by Professor Sudipta Kaviraj

at 2:30 PM at the Seminar Room, Centre for the Study of Developing
Societies (CSDS), 29, Rajpur Road, Delhi 110 054.


Professor Sudipta Kaviraj, Professor of Indian Politics and
Intellectual History at Columbia University, is Rajni Kothari Chair
Professor at CSDS.

His publications include The Unhappy Consciousness: Bankimchandra
Chattopadhyay and the Formation of Nationalist Discourse in India (OUP
1993); (Ed.) Politics in India (OUP 1998); (Ed. with Sunil Khilnani)
Civil Society: History and Possibilities (Cambridge 2000); (Ed. with
Martin Doornbos) Dynamics of State Formation: Europe and India
Compared (Sage 1998); and (with Krishna Bharadwaj) Perspectives on
Capitalism: Marx, Keynes, Schumpeter and Weber (Sage 1989).