Kesavan Veluthat

Gebundenes Buch

Clio Revisits Calliope

A Historian's Excursion to the Kavya Literature

Beschreibung

The essays included in Clio Revisits Calliope: A Historian's Excursion to the Kāvya Literature analyze kāvya literature in Sanskrit, bringing to bear on it a sense of history. Taken up for study are the kāvyas of Kālidāsa, Bhāravi and Māgha, as well as a few praśastis. There is also a study of the Maṇipravāḷam poetry from Kerala, which partake of all features of Sanskrit kāvyas. The burden of argument in these essays is that even when the theme taken up by two texts are the same, each has a different flavour and character and that it is the social formation which produced a literary piece that determines them.

Autor

Kesavan Veluthat has taught history in the Universities of Calicut, Mangalore and Delhi. He has been Visiting Professor in many universities in India and abroad. An author of several research papers and half a dozen books in English including The Political Structure of Early Medieval South India, The Early Medieval in South India and The Notes of Dissent. He has also written as many works in Malayalam, and he also translates from Sanskrit into these languages. Among the many recognitions that he has received are the Campbell Memorial Gold Medal from Asiatic Society, Mumbai, the Hemachandra Raychaudhuri Memorial Gold Medal from Asiatic Society, Kolkata and the best book award in 'Scientific Literature' from Kerala Sahitya Akademi. He is the recipient of the Kairali Lifetime Achievement Award 2022-23 from the Government of Kerala. He has also been closely associated with the Indian History Congress, of which he was the General President during 2022-23.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Ratna Sagar
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9789368833161
• ISBN-10: 9368833168
• Artikelnr.: 73943706