Subverting the Canon: Two and a Half Stories, Alternative Narrations, and Radical Pedagogy in the Mahābharāta

Fri, November 17, 2023
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
311 Denney Hall

Ujaan Ghosh, assistant professor in the Department of History of Art, will present a talk focusing on an episodic interrogation of the Sarala Dasa’a fifteenth-century Odia Mahābharāta. Sarala self-identified himself as a Śudra-Muni (a saint from the lower caste) who was tasked to re-tell the epic.

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