Performative Reflections of Indian Traditions: Towards a Liveable Learning

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This book focuses on the cohering elements across various texts and traditions of India. It engages with several significant works from the Sanskrit tradition and emphasizes the need to move beyond colonial and postcolonial engagements with the enduring cultural pasts of India. The chapters are grouped in three main parts: accented rhythms, dispersed mnemoscapes and inventive iterations. It addresses questions such as: what enabled cultural communication across very divergent geographical, temporal, locational contexts and among different cultural formations of India over millennia? What is this shareable impulse that pulsates across the domains of dance, sculpture, painting, poetry, dharma, music, medicine, the lore of rivers and the epics?  It explains how modern Indian languages and especially their creative and reflective nodes are unthinkable without the intricately woven textures of these interfaces and their responsive receptions. This book is of interest to philosophers, humanities students, researchers and professors as well as people interested in exploring alternatives to European traditions of thought without an alibi.   Acknowledgements Coda-Sutra Openings: Inward Receptions References Contents About the Author Part I Accented Rhythms 1 Formations of the (Im)Possible: A Prolegomenon 1.1 Differential Projections 1.2 Crossing the Ipse 1.3 Actional Apparatus 1.4 Formational Instants 2 Anaakhyaana—I 3 Charaka’s Pharmacia 3.1 Ends of Man 3.2 Therapy Sans Pharmacos 3.3 Of the Biocultural Formations 3.4 Inherence of the Subtle 3.5 Non-positional Learning 4 Anaakhyaana—II 5 Vyasa’s Paravisions 5.1 The Enigma of the Non-formational 5.2 Projections of Para 5.3 Performative Assemblages 5.4 Constricting Theory 6 Anaakhyaana—III 7 Bharata’s Performative Teleosis 7.1 Tamperable Ethos 7.2 Teleocultural Mediations 7.3 Actional Lokations 7.4 Actional Performative Ethos 7.5 Gratifying Communication 7.6 Actional Sediments and Flavours 7.7 Actional Effects 7.8 Recursive Dispersals 7.9 Vulnerable Circuits 7.10 Be-Longings 8 Anaakhyaana–IV 9 Sarngadeva’s Primal Sonances 9.1 Musical Universe 9.2 Biocultural Sonances 9.3 Primal Melodies 9.4 Positive Temptations 10 Manu’s Mnemopraxials 10.1 Cultivable Ethos 10.2 Elusive Desire 10.3 Drifts of the Desiring Memory 10.4 Actional Residues 10.5 Articulations of the Heterogeneous 11 Anaakhyaana–V 12 (A)Para Poiesis 12.1 Figurations of the Literary Being 12.2 Being of the Literary Living 12.3 Articulations of the Unsayable 12.4 Affective Probes 12.5 Indirectional Intimations Part II Dispersed Mnemocsapes 13 Mnemoscapes of Water: The Vaangmaya of Rains and Rivers in Indian Traditions 13.1 Weaves of Memory 13.2 Another Learning 13.3 Conceptions of Rain 13.4 Inscripted Violence 13.5 Mnemotraces of Emergence 13.6 Spatio-temporal Confluences 13.7 Actional Routes 13.8 Sovereign Designs 13.9 Elemental Wonders 14 Teleocultural Mediations: In Performing Traditions of the Ramayana 14.1 Performative Inheritance 14.2 Receptive Detours 14.3 Instantial Wormholes 14.4 Dispersed Intimacies 14.5 Interanimating Currents 14.6 Disconcerting Grafts 14.7 Violence of Identity 14.8 Technics of the Body 14.9 Cultivable Ethos 14.10 Voicing Response 14.11 Performative Virtuosos 14.12 Melodic Mnemoscapes 14.13 Enactive Energies 14.14 Minimal Magnitudes 14.15 Irruptive Interfaces 14.16 Analogue Memories 14.17 Prosthetic Heritages 14.18 Irredenta Jeevitha Part III Inventive Iterations 15 Inventions of the Literary and Affirmations of Inheritance: The Enduring Legacies of Viswanatha Satyanarayana 15.1 Risking the Literary 15.2 Inventions of the Other 15.3 Facing the Invasive 15.4 Enduring Disjunctures 15.5 Contextures of Sense 15.6 Enabling Demarcations 15.7 Paths of Rapture 15.8 Experiential Excess 15.9 Musica Ficta 15.10 Sensorial Sublimations 15.11 Uncanny Intimations 15.12 Haunting Melodies 15.13 Foreclosing Unifications 15.14 Dancing in the Double Bind 15.15 Enduring Legacies Sendings: Communicating Responses Glossary of Sanskrit Terms References Index