Dancing the Self

Personhood and Performance in the Pandav Lila of Garhwal

By: William S. Sax

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Hardcover | 28 February 2002

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Over a period of ten years, William Sax studied the inhabitants of the former kingdom of Garhwal, located in north India. These people are deeply devoted to the great Indian national epic, the Mahabharata. Sax attended and participated in dozens of performances of the pandav lila - a ritual reenactment of scenes from the Mahabharata in dance - and observed in context in village life. He also discovered and documented a bizarre and fascinating cult whose existence was only previously rumoured, which worships and exalts the villains of the epic and reviles the usual heroes. This book not only opens a window on a fascinating (and threatened) aspect of rural Indian life and Hinduism as a living religion, but provides an accessible introduction to the Mahabharata itself, including lively translations of many songs and poems based on the epic, and a prologue containing a concise and readable summary of the entire story.

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Acknowledgments	p. vii
Nāyakasya Kaveh Śrotuh Sāmānonubhavas Tatah	p. x
Dancing the Self	p. 1
Introduction The Performative Construction of the Self	p. 3
Prologue: The Mahābhārata Story	p. 16
The Sutol Pāndav Līlā	p. 20
The Dance of the Cowherd Pāndav Līlā as a Regional Tradition	p. 39
Hunting the Rhinoceros Pāndav Līlā as a Man's Sport	p. 64
A Theater of Hegemony Pāndav Līlā as a Rajput Tradition	p. 93
Violent Women Draupadi and Kunti in the Pāndav Līlā	p. 134
A Divine King in the Western Himalayas	p. 157
The Hall of Mirrors Orientalism, Anthropology, and the "other"	p. 186
Bibliography	p. 201
Index	p. 221
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