Re-ending the Mahābhārata POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy

Re-ending the Mahābhārata POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural PolicyOffers a fresh perspective on the Mahbhrata based on an exploration of its ending, the Svargrohaa parvan. This book challenges two prevalent assumptions about the Mahbhrata: that its narrative is inherently incapable of achieving a conclusion and that its ending, the Svargrohaa parva, is an extraneous part of the text. While the exegetic traditions have largely tended to suppress, ignore, or overlook the importance of this final section, Shalom argues

traditional ecological knowledge and Indigenous values were suppressed by colonial rules of settlement

The intrinsic value of human cultural activity has been lost

as well as a desire to break all boundaries and smash so-called conventional wisdoms

avoiding pitfalls

state government

The editor of this work

" These same factors explain Colombia's establishment of a low-intensity democracy-a structure of elite rule in which the strategies of coercion (state and para-state repression) and consensus (competitive elections

This guide to the contemplative life

At times straightforwardly factual

Lillian Nayder

he retained some mobility in his arms and hands

revealing underlying structure in a totally new and much more invariant manner than ever before possible