Culture-Epics
Edited by Nell Shapiro Hawley and Sohini Sarah Pillai
The fourth part showcases the contemporary concerns which colour the modern adaptations of the Mahābhārata.The Bengali intellectual Bankimchandra Chattopadhyaya, for instance, tried to weed out the interpolations to construct the Mahābhārata’s Kṛṣṇa as an ideal man and Hindu national icon. However, Ahona Panda notes how this pseudo-historical project
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