[INDOLOGY] Interview with the new ICHR Chairman

[Nagaraj Paturi]

That was my hunch. I do not think that there was a purva-paksha that
itihasa is not history and I also think that such a position was of general
concern at his time.
You might want to reconsider your claim "Yet he accepts the basic
Mahabharata story as real history, in all its supernatural abundance" then.

At a time when the category of 'history' itself is being interrogated ,
'history' as a 'modern' category is being intensely scrutinized through
'post-modern' tools, elevation of 'history' to a higher value vis-à-vis
myth and other narrative accounts of past is more and more being viewed as
a product of enlightenment age fascination for logical positivist
understandings, the tendency of an office to hang on to the obsolete
tendency of claiming the assumed superior status of 'history' to certain
narratives is what comes of the reported words of the new ICHR Chairman.

Warm regards,

Nagaraj



On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 5:07 AM, Howard Resnick <hr at ivs.edu> wrote:

> Again, I think we need to first find evidence that Madhva engaged a
> purva-paksa notion that itihasa is not history, or that such a position was
> of general concern at his time.
>
> Best,
> Howard
>
> On Jul 13, 2014, at 2:09 PM, Nagaraj Paturi <nagarajpaturi at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > "Yet he accepts the basic Mahabharata story as real history, in all its
> supernatural abundance"
> >
> >
>                                                                -Howard
> Resnick
> >
> > This is really interesting. May I know the exact words used by Sri
> Madhvacharya with the meaning 'real history' ? That citation will help in
> tracing the history of the notion of 'real history' among pre-modern Indian
> writers.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Nagaraj
> >
> >
> >
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Prof.Nagaraj Paturi
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