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The Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram
The Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram: Co-Creator of the Integral Yoga analyzes the contributions of the Mother (née Mirra Alfassa, 1878-1973) to the Integral Yoga that she and Sri Aurobindo (né Aurobindo Ghose, 1872-1950) co-created for his ashram. Scholars have ignored Mirra for Aurobindo, which prevents a full understanding of their spiritual practice. Scholars have also avoided examining work Aurobindo produced after they began their partnership in 1920 until his death in 1950, and privileged the written output in his journal Arya from 1914 to 1921. In this initial fertile period, he put forth his innovative teaching about what he called the “Supermind,” an emergent human faculty that he said would manifest a new humanity and a new earth through Mirra’s body. Mirra claimed that after his death in 1956 this manifestation happened as he foretold. Mirra’s work in the ashram from his death until hers in 1973 reveals important ways that she both fulfilled and changed Aurobindo’s initial vision. These developments are chiefly based on her experiences of mental dissolution while her body gained a new supramental form and consciousness.
The Humanist (Re)Turn: Reclaiming the Self in Literature
The exciting new book argues for a renewed emphasis on humanism--contrary to the trend of post-humanism, or what Neema Parvini calls "the anti-humanism" of the last several decades of literary and theoretical scholarship. In this trail-blazing study, Michael Bryson argues for this renewal of perspective by covering literature written in different languages, times, and places, calling for a return to a humanism, which focuses on literary characters and their psychological and existential struggles—not struggles of competition, but of connection, the struggles of fragmented, incomplete individuals for integration, wholeness, and unity.
Fantasy and the Politics of Subversion
A study of the origins, nature and role of fantasy literature in early 19th century colonial India, this book explores how speculative writing was produced in the context of, and in resistance to, empire.
Debating the 'Post' Condition in India
How was the post-modernist project contested, subverted and assimilated in India? This book offers a personal account and an intellectual history of its reception and response. Tracing independent India’s engagement with Western critical theory, Paranjape outlines both its past and ‘post’. The book explores the discursive trajectories of post-modernism, post-colonialism, post-Marxism, post-nationalism, post-feminism, post-secularism — the relations that mediate them — as well as interprets, in the light of these discussions, core tenets of Indian philosophical thought. Paranjape argues that India’s response to the modernist project is neither submission, willing or reluctant, nor...
Mapping the Posthuman
This book works to delineate some of the major routes by which science and art intersect. Structured according to the origin myths of the posthuman that continue to shape the idea of the human in our technological modernity, this volume gives space to narratives of alter-modernity that resonate with Ursula K. Le Guin’s call for a new kind of story which exposes the violence and exploitation driven by a sustained belief in human exceptionalism, anthropocentrism, and cultural superiority. In this context, the posthuman myths of multispecies flourishing given in this collection, which are situated across a range of historical times and locations, and media and modalities, are to be thought of as kernels of possible futures that can only be realized through collective endeavour.
Time Matters
Time Matters is a luminous journey through the fluidity of time, memory and existence. With a voice both introspective and expansive, this collection explores the paradoxes of experience - where past, present and future coalesce, interact and separate; where materiality is a speed of perception; and where waking, dream and death are interchangeable mysteries. An exercise in bi-cultural understanding and a meditation on translocality, this book invites readers to step back, enter and experience the magic space of its multidimensional poetic landscapes.
Rhythms of India, the Art of Nandalal Bose
Foreword and acknowledgments / Derrick R. Cartwright & Sonya Rhie Quintanilla -- Preface : the recognizable rendered anew / Rajeev Lochan -- Introduction / John M. Rosenfield -- Essays. Nandalal Bose and the history of Indian art / Pramod Chandra & Sonya Rhie Quintanilla -- "Reinventing" Nandalal : the master artist / A. Ramachandran -- Havell, Abanindranath, Nandalal : towards a utopic postmodern culture / Debashish Banerji -- Japan and Nandalal Bose in the context of modern Indian art / Kumamoto Kenjiro, trans. Louise Allison Cort -- Nandalal : his vision of art and art education / R. Siva Kumar -- The Rabindranath-Nandalal-Gandhi connection / K.G. Subramanyan -- Universalist aspirations in a "national" art : Asia in Nandalal Bose's imagination / Sugata Bose -- Catalogue / Sonya Rhie Quintanilla & H. Tiffany Lee, in consultation with R. Siva Kumar. The search for a new Indian art ; The abode of peace : Nandalal Bose at Santiniketan ; Nandalal Bose and the ideals of Gandhi ; Murals of the Kirti Mandir ; The Sumi-e period -- Biographical timeline and map -- Glossary.
The Alternate Nation of Abanindranath Tagore
This volume provides a revisionary critique of the art of Abanindranath Tagore, the founder of the national school of Indian painting, popularly known as the Bengal School of Art. The book categorically argues that the art of Abanindranath, which developed during the Bengal Renaissance in the 19th–20th centuries, was not merely a normalization of national or oriental principle, but was a hermeneutic negotiation between modernity and community. It establishes that his form of art—embedded in communitarian practices like kirtan, alpona, pet-naming, syncretism, and storytelling through oral allegories—sought a social identity within the inter-subjective context of locality, regionality, nationality, and trans-nationality. The author presents Abanindranath as a creative agent who, through his art, conducted a critical engagement with post-Enlightenment modernity and regional subalternity.
Integral Yoga Psychology
Integral Yoga Psychology is a new attempt to position the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother within the frame of yoga psychology, as an inquiry related to transpersonal and whole-person psychologies. This book contains 11 essays by leading scholar-practitioners of integral yoga, sketching its possibility-space as a psychology. It attemps this through a hermeneutics of the texts of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, as well as their own and their disciples' practices and experiences. It also makes a beginning at locating the field in its larger contexts, through comparative, qualitative and empirical studies, as well as probing the clinical possibilities of its models.
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