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9780195672138

Andha Yug

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  • ISBN13:

    9780195672138

  • ISBN10:

    0195672135

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2005-07-07
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

Andha Yug is one of the most significant plays of modern India. Written immediately after the partition of the Indian subcontinent, the play is a profound meditation on the politics of violence and aggressive selfhood. The moral burden of the play is that every act of violence inevitably debases society as a whole. Alok Bhalla's translation captures the essential tension between the nightmare of self-enchantment, which the story of the Kauravas represents, and the ever-present possibility of finding a way out of the cycle of revenge into a redemptive ethicality.

Table of Contents

Defending the Sacred in an Age of Atrocities: On Translating Andha Yug 1(16)
Alok Bhalla
Prefatory Note 17(2)
A Note to the Directors 19(6)
Prologue 25(2)
Act One: The Kaurava Kingdom
27(20)
Act Two: The Making of a Beast
47(18)
Act Three: The Half-truth of Ashwatthama
65(30)
Interlude: Feathers, Wheels and Bandages
89(6)
Act Four: Gandhari's Curse
95(32)
Act Five: Victory and a Series of Suicides
127(20)
Epilogue: Death of the Lord 147

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