{"product_id":"retelling-time-shonaleeka-kaul-9781032061931","title":"Retelling Time: Alternative Temporalities from Premodern South Asia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRetelling Time\u003c\/em\u003e challenges the hegemony of colonial modernity over academic disciplines and over ways in which we think about something as fundamental as time. It reclaims a bouquet of alternative practices of time from premodern South Asia, which stem from worldviews that have been marginalized.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThese practices relate to a range of classical and vernacular genres including \u003ci\u003ealaṃkāra\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003etheravāda\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eyoga\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003erāmakathā\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003etasawwuf\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eāyāraṃga\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003epurāṇa, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003etrikā\u003c\/i\u003e-\u003ci\u003etantra\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003enavya-nyāya\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003epratyabhijñā\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ecarita\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ekūṭīyāṭṭam\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003emaṅgala kāvya. \u003c\/i\u003eThese represent multiple languages such as Sanskrit, Persian, Pali, Prakrit, Awadhi, Malayalam, Kannada, and Bengali, as well as diverse streams, from Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, and Sufi Islam to logic, yoga, tantra, theatre, and poetics. \u003ci\u003eRetelling Time\u003c\/i\u003e questions the modern Eurocentric belief in an empty, homogenous, abbreviated, secular and irreversible time. It proposes instead that that premodern South Asia invested time with cultural function and value, which ranged from the contingent to the transcendent, the quotidian to the cosmic, the fleeting to the eternal, and the social to the spiritual. Accordingly, time was reworked --- stretched, melded, collapsed, recursed, rolled over, and even extinguished. Sacred, social, aesthetic, scientific, fictional, historical, and performative South Asian traditions are seen here in conversation with one other, mediated by an ethical paradigm. Their collective challenge is to decolonize our ways of knowing and being. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book will be of interest to scholars of South Asian history, philosophy of history, anthropology, literature, Sanskrit, post colonial studies, cultural studies, studies of temporality and of the Global South.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Shonaleeka Kaul\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1032061936\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781032061931\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge Chapman \u0026amp; Hall\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/17\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 218\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.11lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d","brand":"Shonaleeka Kaul","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44127585009919,"sku":"9781032061931","price":170.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1fbcd3fb-0220-40a8-b960-4c2743f6698a.jpg?v=1687454130","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/retelling-time-shonaleeka-kaul-9781032061931","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}