[INDOLOGY] Interview with the new ICHR Chairman

[Nagaraj Paturi]

Sorry for the typing error: Please read "I also think that such a position
was not of general concern at his time. " for

"I also think that such a position was of general concern at his time".

Nagaraj




On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Nagaraj Paturi <nagarajpaturi at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>> > Hyderabad-500044
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>
>
> --
> Prof.Nagaraj Paturi
> Hyderabad-500044
>



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