Locating draupadi in the poetics and politics of performance. Mythological mrityunjaya biography of karna yugandhar a story of lord krishna and his wife radheya the justice told through the eyes of karna yayati v. The razor edge of irawati karve s intelligence transforms the entire mahabharata from a work full of religious allusions and inconsistencies explained away by deus ex machina into something much more valuable the ultimate humanist story, of real people, facing real problems, and with real consequences that they had. There are variations between castes because of hierarchy and castebased isolation and separation.
Yuganta the end of an epoch iravati karve preface the idea of writing my mahabharata studies in english occurred to me first whenfriends and pupils in the u. Karves knowledge and understanding of the epic can be seen by reading this work of hers. Iravati karve, rajeswari sundar rajan, sally j sutherland, mahasweta devi have deviated from a traditional writing in order to adopt a new writing imbued with new thinking and new techniques. You can publish your book online for free in a few minutes. Yuganta mahabharta irawati karwe linkedin slideshare.
Karve wrote the book first in marathi, and later translated it into english. When in 1953 the first edition of irawati karves book on indian kinship systems was published as a volume of the bulletin of the deccan college postgraduate and research ins. It is a movement that will make president apj abdul kalam proud. Has anyone read yuganta, iravati karves book on mahabharat.
So the author tries to cull out the realhuman interpretations of the events underneath the alleg. The rationale of this programme is to highlight and bring alive the nonacademic writings of women in sociology. Yuganta the end of an epoch iravati karve preface the idea of writing my mahabharata studies in english occurred to me first when friends and pupils in the u. Yuganta by dr irawati karve, translated from the marathi original. Irawati karve, professor of anthropology at the deccan college post graduate and research institute, poona, who passed away on august 11, 1970 was the daughter of g. What was expected, once the results of the immense task of critically editing the.
Feb 09, 2008 it is accompanied by an excerpt from iravati karves book, yuganta. Anthropology for archaeology proceedings of the professor irawati karve birth centenary seminar. Brought up in an enlightened middle class family, she took her b. Oct 26, 2007 ive been reading irawati karve s yuganta, a collection of essays on the mahabharata and its characters. Iravati karve 1953 undertakes a comparative analysis of four cultural zones with a view to trace out something like a regional pattern of social behaviour. Irawati karves yuganta and devdutt pattanaiks jaya hindu.
Karve an anthropologist studies the humanity of the mahahabharatas great figures with all their virtues and their equally numerous flaws in yuganta. The razor edge of irawati karves intelligence transforms the entire mahabharata from a work full of religious allusions and inconsistencies explained away by deus ex machina into something much more valuable the ultimate humanist story, of real people, facing real problems, and with real consequences that they had. It is an indepth character analysis of prominent characters and controversial subjects in the great epic of mahabharata. Topics indian mythology, social critique collection arvindgupta. Norman bowra states that yuganta studies the humanity of the mahabharatas great figures seen through her eyes, the mahabharata becomes a record of a complex humanity and a mirror to all the faces that we ourselves wear qtd. Yuganata deals with narratives of 4 women characters of the mahabharata. Anyone reading this book might well conclude that iravati karves favourite. In karves version, as each sari is pulled off another appears in its place and the discussion continues, as opposed to vyasas the mahabharata which offers a deafening silence. This venture has at last been completed, thanks mostly to my american and indian daughters, maxine, jai and gauri. The mahabharata set of 10 volumes bibek debroy, vyasa. She was the daughterinlaw of maharshi dhondo keshav karve. Family and kinship in india essay example graduateway.
Irawati karve studies the humanity of the mahabharata s great figures, with all their virtues and their equally numerous faults. Yuganta studies the principal, mythicalheroic figures of the mahabharata. Saurashtra university re accredited grade b by naac cgpa 2. Feb 21, 2014 iravati karves yuganta end of an epoch is not a rehash of the epic. Shaped and influenced by irawati karves interpretations of draupadi in her book yuganta. Had read a couple of these essays as an adolescent when i was heavily into mahabharatarelated literature straightforward translations as well as analytical works by krishna chaitanya and others and i remember feeling a mild annoyance towards them at the time. Ive been privately amusing myself by imagining how these offencetakers would respond to iravati karve s classic yuganta, which is one of the most renowned academic studies of the mahabharata and its characters. As she dissects various personas of mahabharata, she is brutal, incisive and decisive. Passionate in her arguments yet dispassionate towards individuals.
At a simplistic level, the basic story thread is indeed communicated, while delving into these characters and placing them in the context of the story. Biography of irawati karve and his contribution towards. Yuganta by iravati karve iravati karve had been a student of sociology and anthropology. Iravati karves yuganta which provides a feminist interpretation of the epic. Mahabharata is many times compared with indian literature as well as greek and other literatures. Response to sangh objections on ak ramanujans history text. Jun 01, 2014 draupadis question has been a point of dispute is several texts mainly because of what she should or should not have said. Primary relatives focus on kinship within the family including initial intrafamily relationships containing husbands and wife, mother and daughter, brother and sister, father and son etc. Most of the essays are studies of the major characters around whom the ancient warstory revolves. The premise of the book is that the mahabharata is essentially a record of events than a mythological tale.
Nov 09, 2015 i have read the book and it is brilliant. Bhishma and iravati karves yuganta different kind of. Her book does not treat the characters of mahabharata as titans, but rather as ordinary human beings with complex human characteristics and emotions. According to her, there is much in the mahabharata to suggest this. Karmarkar, an engineer in myingyan, burma, on december 15, 1905 and died on august 11, 1970. Paper 1 indian classical literature 1 kalidasa abhijnana. Yuganta, the end of an epoch irawati karve download. Jul 29, 2011 read in this way, the mahabharata is a fluid work of literature, with interpretations that can range from kamala subramaniams sentimentalidealistic view of the characters to iravati karves anthropological take in yuganta, which analyses the ulterior motives of the most revered figures, placing even krishna under the microscope.
Iucaa loads website with 700 books lack of good public libraries pushes scientist to open online library with english, marathi and hindi books pia chandavarkar pune, june 26. Yuganta by iravati karve tells us to first accept this fact. Supplementary readings include the introduction of robert p. A mustread for anyone who finds mahabharata interesting. The end of an epoch by irawati karve is a book which studies the pivotal events and characters of the mahabharata with a logical, analytical and critical point of view. Kinship in india can be seen in families and outside families.
Hindu society an interpretation deccan college, 1961, a study of hindu society based on data which karve had collected in her field trips, and her study of pertinent texts in hindi, marathi, sanskrit. Irawati karve was an indian anthropologist, educationist, and a writer. These character studies treat the protagonists of the book as. Then in my adolescence, my mother handed me a slim book of essays. Iravati karve s yugant mukund lath written over a 5year period between 1962 and 1967, the 11 essays on the mahabharata collected in iravati karve s yugant are manifestly the fruit of a lifetime of reflective response to the great epic. The end of an epoch, a study of the main characters of the mahabharata treats them as historical figures and uses their attitudes and behavior to gain an understanding of the times in which they lived. Such intelligent observations, acute political stances and a flair for writing thats so rare.
This venture has at lastbeen completed, thanks mostly to my american and indian daughters, maxine, jai andgauri. She was born in 1905 and named after the irawaddy river in burma where her father, ganesh hari karmarkar, worked in the burma cotton company. The people belonging to similar descent group are located in a given region where they worship to their common ancestors, follow common way of life and when the size of descent group expands, they migrate to different areas but still carry their identity. Notsoquiethasflown theiravati indian academy of sciences. Indian mythology, social critique addeddate 20160314 03. Many comparative studies have been done on mahabharata.
Kinship organization in india deccan college, 1953, a study of various social institutions in india. Irawati karves yuganta and devdutt pattanaiks jaya. Buy this book yuganta the end of an epoch by irawati karve at amazon india. Irawati karves yuganta and devdutt pattanaiks jaya free download as pdf file. Indian kinship systems economic and political weekly. It is a dissection of each of the characters, the society at the time and even the incidents in the book itself she claims that several incidents were later additions in order to, for instance, make certain people look better. Irawati karve yuganta is not a linear retelling of the mahabharata, instead it uses a few characters to do a critical analysis of the epic. Whether youve loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them.
Brides from iravati karves essay in family and kinship in india, edited by patricia uberoi early marriage of girls and boys are rampant in the northern zone, but in these marriages, the bride is not sent to the grooms house until she reaches puberty. These gave me the basic narrative, but i cant pretend they interested me greatly in the epic. Ive been reading irawati karves yuganta, a collection of essays on the mahabharata and its characters. Yuganta has never been out of print since it was published in marathi in 1969 and english in 1974. This venture has at lastbeen completed, thanks mostly to my.
Sought out by an inquirer like her, whose view of life is secular, scientific, anthropological in the widest sense, it is also appreciative of literary values, social problems of the past and present alike, and human needs and responses in the present and past. Nov 25, 2015 irawati karves draupadi in yuganta 1968 raises difficult and complicated legal and moral issues while the kaurava men start pulling off her sari. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. The usually venerated characters of this ancient indian epic are here subjected to a rational enquiry that places them in context, unravels their hopes and fears, and imbues them with wholly human motives, thereby making their stories relevant and astonishing to. Karve published yuganta in marathi in 1967 and then translated it into english herself. Yuganta and the vidurayudhishthira relationship in the. Yuganta and the vidurayudhishthira relationship in the mahabharata. Which is the original mahabharata book, that contains all the. She wields the pen like a scimitar and her mind like a microscope. The book was written in marathi at first but later it was translated in english by w.
This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. Oct 29, 2015 if you want all the contents and sub stories of mahabharata in tamil language, it is very difficult to get it, since there has been no attempt to translate the original mahabharata into tamil. Yuganta studies the principal, mythicalheroic figures of the mahabharata from historical, anthropological and secular perspectives. But then is length not the proof of impact this exploration has on the reader. Yuganta the end of an epoch iravati karve preface the idea of writing my mahabharata studies in english occurred to me first when friends and. As i had mentioned about iravati karves analysis, though it reeks of patriarchal thoughts, it was only the question about doing what is required to save yourself, caught my attention. Stripping the trappings of myth, legend and imagination, the author presents us the bare truth, as she perceives it. Whether vidura was yudhishthiras father or not has important.
Click download or read online button to get yuganta book now. Sought out by an inquirer like her, whose view of life is secular, scientific, anthropological in the widest. This short and very readable book of essays on the mahabharata was recommended by rparvaaz, who i believe has a copy for me. Vyasa the dicing and the sequel to dicing, the book of the assembly hall, the temptation of karna, book v the book of effort, in the mahabharata. The end of an epoch book online at best prices in india on. Karve, who took a historicalcumanthropological perspective on the great epic, was dismissive of the idea that draupadi was a proto. With the goal of bridging the digital divide and taking knowledge beyond boundaries, an. Bhagavad gita in english ebook pdf 8 years ago ramayan. Oct 24, 20 iravati karve she was indias first women anthropologist, at a time when anthropology and sociology were still developing as university disciplines. This book won the literary prize from the sahitya akademi for the best book in. Rewritings of myths by postmodernist novelists have also exposed the reigning anarchy of the contemporary sociopolitical. Full text of yuganta the end of an epoch irawati karve.
In her brilliant and pathbreaking study of the mahabharata called yuganta, iravati karve argues that there is a possibility that vidura could have been yudhishthiras father a strong possibility, though not a certainty. The characters are explored from very different perspectives in yuganta by iravati karve, mrityunjay by shivaji sawant,yajnaseni by pratibha ray, yugandhar by shivaji sawant. Irawati karve studies the humanity of the mahabharatas great figures and no one. The house of the nagaraja airavata was on the banks of the river iravati. The end of an epoch is a book written by anthropologist irawati karve. An excerpt from the publication not so quiet has flown the iravati. She wrote extensively on a wide variety of academic subjects and otherwise.
She was married to dinkar was an educator and a principal of. The end of an epoch, a study of the main characters of the mahabharata treats them as historical figures and uses their attitudes and behavior to gain an. Irawati karve profile, biography and life history veethi. The house of takshaka was apparently in the khandava forest on the banks of theyamuna. Genders, feminisms and sociologies in india towards a state. I am, however, reading iravati karve s yuganta and it looks very promising i am halfway through. Coming to this book, it is an academic analysis of mahabharata, the epic text. In jaya, devdutt pattanaik a qualified medical doctor, has seamlessly woven into a single narrative, plots from the sanskrit classic as well as its many folk and regional variants. This is not a story book, but rather a collection of essays which analyse various characters of mahabharata and their roles. We have selected yuganta, written by irawati karve, as the text which will be dramatized by the young and dynamic kathak dancer, sanjukta wagh. Irawati karve was an indian educationist, anthropologist, sociologist and a writer from maharashtra, india. The end of an epoch, saoli mitra, a wellknown actress from west bengal daughter of actors shambhu and tripti mitra created a solo play nathabati anathbat which was first performed on stage by mitra in 1983. A comparative study, thesis phd, saurashtra university. Her writings include the highly acclaimed book yuganta which won the sahitya academy award.
They should be studied to learn from their life and times, without judging them for their actions. Karve s knowledge and understanding of the epic can be seen by reading this work of hers. Yuganta is, quite simply, the best book on the mahabharata that i have read. She was named irawati after the great and sacred burmese.
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