[Reader-list] Invitation to a Lecture by Jason Schwartz on 18 July 2017 at CSDS

[Praveen Rai]

Centre for the Study of Developing Societies

invites you to a lecture





*The King Must Protect the Difference *

*The Juridical Foundations of Medieval Religious *

*Diversity and the Making of the Śaiva Age*

by *Jason Schwartz*



*Ananya Vajpeyi* will Chair

Tuesday, 18 July 2017, 5.30 pm
                              *RSVP *

CSDS Seminar
Room,
                        Tel:
011 23942199

29 Rajpur Road, Delhi
110054
Fax: 011 23943450

Please join us for tea at 5 pm
                                          email: jaya at csds.in





This lecture will demonstrate that the institutionalization of large scale
settlements comprised of Śaiva and Śākta Śaiva communities throughout the
Deccan was underwritten by conceptual possibilities native to the early
medieval Brahmanical Dharmaśāstras themselves.  Succinctly, a body of
generally accepted law, promoting site and community specific forms of
legal pluralism, up to and inclusive of the suspension of the strictures of
varṇāśramadharma, enabled the emergence of protected spaces effectively
zoned for “heresy.” Drawing upon largely unstudied as well as unpublished
inscriptional, śāstric, and tantric sources in Sanskrit and Haḷe Kannaḍa,
the speaker will demonstrate the prevalence of such social formations as
well as their integrality to our understanding of medieval sociality.



*Jason Schwartz* is the recipient of the Ludo and Rosane Rocher Fellowship
from the American Institute of Indian Studies. He is currently affiliated
at the Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient in Pondicherry. He received his MA
from Columbia University in 2011 and will receive his PhD from the
University of California, Santa Barbara in fall of 2018 and will begin a
postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Religious studies at Stanford
University.



*Ananya Vajpeyi* is Associate Professor at the Centre for the Study of
Developing Societies.

-- 
Praveen Rai
Academic Secretary
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
29, Rajpur Road
Delhi - 110054
Phone: 91-11-23942199
http://www.csds.in/praveen.rai