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The Mahabharata
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Penguin
| Author:
Bibek Debroy
| Language:
English
| Format:
Hardcover (Premium collector’s edition)
Publisher:
Penguin
Author:
Bibek Debroy
Language:
English
Format:
Hardcover (Premium collector’s edition)
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The greatest Indian story ever told of a war between two factions of a family, the Mahabharata has continued to capture the imagination of readers over centuries. While the dispute over land and kingdom between the warring cousins—the Pandavas and the Kauravas—forms the chief narrative,
the primary concern of the Mahabharata is about the conflicts of dharma. These conflicts are immense and various, singular and commonplace. Throughout the epic, characters face them with no clear indications of what is right and what is wrong; there are no absolute answers.
Given its formidable length of 80,000 shlokas, with innumerable subplots that accommodate fascinating meanderings and digressions, the epic has rarely been translated in full. Bibek Debroy makes the Mahabharata marvellously accessible to contemporary readers in this premium collector’s edition.
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The greatest Indian story ever told of a war between two factions of a family, the Mahabharata has continued to capture the imagination of readers over centuries. While the dispute over land and kingdom between the warring cousins—the Pandavas and the Kauravas—forms the chief narrative,
the primary concern of the Mahabharata is about the conflicts of dharma. These conflicts are immense and various, singular and commonplace. Throughout the epic, characters face them with no clear indications of what is right and what is wrong; there are no absolute answers.
Given its formidable length of 80,000 shlokas, with innumerable subplots that accommodate fascinating meanderings and digressions, the epic has rarely been translated in full. Bibek Debroy makes the Mahabharata marvellously accessible to contemporary readers in this premium collector’s edition.
About Author
Bibek Debroy is a professional economist educated in Presidency College (Kolkata), Delhi School of Economics and Trinity College (Cambridge). He has taught in colleges and universities (Kolkata, Pune) and management institutes (Indian Institute of Foreign Trade) and worked in research organizations (National Council for Applied Economic Research, Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies) and for the government (Department of Economic Affairs). He has published academic papers and books and also written popular articles as a columnist (Business Today, Business Standard, Financial Express, Indian Express, Telegraph). His special interests are trade, law and the political economy of reforms. But beyond economics, Bibek Debroy has earlier (with his wife) written a book on the Ramayana and the Mahabharata and published abridged translations of the four Vedas, the eleven major Upanishads and the nineteen major Puranas. His papers on Indology have been published in Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute.
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