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IAP 2014 Activities by Sponsor - MIT India Program



Re-imagining the Mahabharata

Kamesh Aiyer

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: welcome at individual sessions but no transition help provided
Prereq: Comfortable in English discussions

The Mahabharata is a 100,000 verse epic poem that is a source book of Indian myth.  It is many things: it is a story of a great war that engulfed all South Asia; it is History, beginning with Genesis – of the universe, the gods and demons, the first people, onwards, to the story of the generations preceding the war; it is a soap opera; a religious text; a textbook of how to rule; a treatise on how to live. There is something in it for everyone and it has been the wellspring of inspiration in India for the last two thousand years.

Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies, MIT India Program
Contact: Melanie Mala Ghosh, 258-5917, mghosh@mit.edu


Re-Imagining the Mahabharata

Jan/07 Tue 01:00PM-03:00PM 4-149
Jan/14 Tue 01:00PM-03:00PM 4-149
Jan/21 Tue 01:00PM-03:00PM 4-149
Jan/28 Tue 01:00PM-03:00PM 4-149

Jan 7 - Lecture 1: Introduction

Jan 14 - Lecture 2 - Tribal People

Jan 21 - Lecture 3 - Caste and Farming in the Gangetic Heartland

Jan 28 - Lecture 4 - The Limits of Empire and Dharma

Kamesh Aiyer