New books on caste and power in the Pancatantra

[Mahendra Kumar Mishra]

 Dear  Taylor,
  May  i request you to send a copy of the  book  caste   and power
in  the panchatantra .I am   an Indian fiolklorist   and want to
read  the books, and review this.
  I hope  that  you  will sure take interest  to have an  Indian
reader and reviewer  of your book.
 To know my  folklore  work  in India  kindly have a glance at my web  site :
 www.asgporissa.org/mahendra
 with  best regards, mahendra  mishra

On 8/22/07, McComas Taylor <mccomas.taylor at anu.edu.au> wrote:
> Dear friends
>
> I am pleased to announce the publication of my book 'The Fall of the
> Indigo Jackal: The Discourse of Division and Purnabhadra's Pancatantra',
> by SUNY Press. Thanks to all those kind colleagues on the Indology list
> who have supported me in this project over the past five years.
>
> <http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=61473>
>
> Details: http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=61473
>
> Extract from publisher's blurb:
>
> "In this book, McComas Taylor looks at the discourses that give shape
> and structure to the fall of the indigo jackal and the other tales
> within the /Pancatantra./ The work's fictional metasociety of animals,
> kings, and laundrymen are divided according to their /jati,/ or "kind."
> This discourse of caste holds that individuals' essential natures,
> statuses, and social circles are all determined by their birth. Taylor
> applies contemporary critical theory developed by Foucault, Bourdieu,
> Barthes, and others to show how these ideas are related to other
> Sanskritic master-texts, and describes the "regime of truth" that
> provides validation for the discourse of division."
>
>
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> Dr McComas Taylor
> Head, South Asia Centre
> Faculty of Asian Studies
> The Australian National University
> ACTON ACT 0200
>
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>
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