[Reader-list] Invitation to 2nd C R Parekh Memorial Lecture by Christopher Minkowski

[Praveen Rai]

Institute of Indian Thought, CSDS
invites you to the 2nd C R Parekh Memorial Lecture





*Epic Kings in the Wilderness*

by *Christopher Minkowski*





*Kunal Chakrabarti* will Chair

Friday, 16 September 2016, 6 pm

Lecture Room II, Annexe,
           *RSVP*

India International Centre,

           Tel: 011 23942199

40, Max Mueller Marg, New Delhi
110003                                                         Fax: 011
23943450

Please join us for tea at 5.30 pm
                                                           email:
jaya at csds.in





How did heroic Sanskrit literature mark out the limits of human, civil
power and the dangers of its excess?  In the Mahabharata and Ramayana,
adventures begin when royal figures leave their settled domains for the
wild lands. In the wilderness, the smooth progress of their princely lives
is overturned by wonders or calamities. Unexpected events in the wild are
the engine of epic narratives, but serve more than the story line, and
suggest that moral instruction is hemmed in by the workings of uncontrolled
forces. The lecture will focus on hunting accidents, which highlight the
risks of forgetting one’s duties to the wild and unseen worlds, and those
who inhabit them.



*Christopher Minkowski* is Boden Professor of Sanskrit in the University of
Oxford. He has been a member of the teaching staff of the University of
Iowa, Brown University, and Cornell University, and has held visiting
appointments at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the École
des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and the Humboldt Universät
in Berlin.


*Kunal Chakrabarti* is Professor of Ancient Indian History at the Centre
for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

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Praveen Rai
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