Bhattacharya Sibesh Chandra - Exploring agency in the Mahābhārata: ethical and political dimensions of Dharma

CHETAN SINGH

VRINDA DALMIYA AND GANGEYA MUKHERJI

Part I
Action

SIBESH CHANDRA BHATTACHARYA

AMITA CHATTERJEE

CHRISTOPHER G. FRAMARIN

ARTI DHAND

Part II
Actor

GANGEYA MUKHERJI

SHIRSHENDU CHAKRABARTI

ARINDAM CHAKRABARTI

UMA CHAKRAVARTI

SUNDAR SARUKKAI

Part III
Epic Agency and Retellings

SUDIPTA KAVIRAJ

LAKSHMI BANDLAMUDI

B. N. PATNAIK

Lakshmi Bandlamudi is Professor of Psychology at City University, New York, USA. She is the author of Dialogics of Self, the Mahabharata and Culture: The History of Understanding and Understanding of History (2010).

Sibesh Chandra Bhattacharya is former Professor of ancient history, Allahabad University, India; British Council Scholar, SOAS London; National Fellow, Indian Institute of Advanced Study; and President, Indian Social Science Congress. His publications include Some Aspects of Society in North India; Secular and Pluralistic Elements in the Idea of State in Early India (2002) and Understanding Itihasa: History, Philosophy, Culture (edited), besides around fifty research papers in Indian and international publications such as South Asian Review, Archiv Orientalni, History of English Speaking Peoples, Philosophy East and West, Journal of Indian History, Indian Historical Review, and Indian Economic and Social History Review.

Arindam Chakrabarti is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, USA. His major publications include Denying Existence (1997) and Knowing from Words (co-edited with B. K. Matilal, 1994), and Mahabharata Now (with Sibaji Bandyopadhyay, 2014).

Shirshendu Chakrabarti is former Professor of English, University of Delhi, India. His latest book is Towards an Ethics and Aesthetics of the Future: Rabindranath Tagore 193041 (2015), and he has written three volumes of poetry in Bengali.

Uma Chakravarti taught history at Miranda House, University of Delhi, India. She writes on topics in early Indian history to contemporary issues and is currently editing her third film on the unknown histories of women.

Amita Chatterjee is Professor Emerita at Jadavpur University, India, and currently editor-in-chief of the Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research. She has published extensively on philosophy of logic, language, mind and cognitive science.

Vrinda Dalmiya is Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, USA. She was a Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study from 2011 to 2013. Her research interests are in feminist epistemology, care ethics, and comparative philosophy. She is the author of Caring to Know: Comparative Care Ethics, Feminist Epistemology, and the Mahbhrata (2016).

Arti Dhand is Associate Professor at the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto, Canada, and author of Woman as Fire, Woman as Sage (2008).

Christopher G. Framarin is Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department and the Classics and Religion Department at the University of Calgary, Canada. His latest book is Hinduism and Environmental Ethics: Law, Literature, and Philosophy (2014).

Sudipta Kaviraj teaches Indian politics and social theory at Columbia University, New York, USA. His books include The Imaginary Institution of India (2010) and The Invention of Private Life: Literature and Ideas (2015).

Gangeya Mukherji teaches English at Mahamati Prannath Mahavidyalaya, Mau-Chitrakoot (Uttar Pradesh), and was Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study (200810). Interested in the history of ideas, especially in nineteenth-century India, Mukherji is the author of Gandhi and Tagore: Politics, Truth and Conscience (2016) and An Alternative Idea of India: Tagore and Vivekananda (2011). He has edited Learning Non-Violence (2016). Mukherji is currently Visiting Professor in the School of Arts and Sciences, Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad, India.

B. N. Patnaik is former Professor of English and linguistics at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. He is the author of