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The Dying Lineage : (Record no. 212584)
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| fixed length control field | 02672nam a22001817a 4500 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20240612155510.0 |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9789358529289 (paperback) |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 321.8 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | chakravarti, Uma |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Dying Lineage : |
| Remainder of title | The Crisis of Political Power in the Mahabharata / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | By Uma Chakravart |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Delhi |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Primus Books |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2024 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xi, 248 pages |
| Dimensions | 22 cm. |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE | |
| Price amount | Rs. 950.00 |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Preface;<br/>Prologue: The Crisis of Reproduction and the Crisis of Political Power in the Mahabharata;<br/>PART I The Politics of Reproduction in the Mahabharata: A Feminist Reading of the Making and Unmaking of a Lineage:<br/>1. The Regulation and Ritualization of Desire: Cohabitation, Marriage, and Reproduction;<br/>2. A Royal Hunt for a Lineage: Apsaras, Kshatriyas, and Gandharva Marriage;<br/>3. Disrupting Amba's Right to Choose: Svayamvara and Rakshasa; Structural Antagonists and Tense Partners in Lineage Making;<br/>4. The Peculiarities of Lineage Making: Ambika, Ambalika, and the Sexual Agency of Women;<br/>5. Madhavi: The Womb Reified;<br/>PART II Of Sutas, Sutaputras, Queens, Dasis, and Dasiputras:<br/>6. The Kshatriya World of Power and its Margins; <br/>7. The Queen, the Dasi, and Sexual Politics in the Mahabharata;<br/>Epilogue: Vidura, or the (Im)possibility of the Practice of Rajadharma in the Mahabharata;<br/>Bibliography;<br/>Index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | The Dying Lineage has at its core the crises of reproduction that underwrite Vyasa’s Mahabharata, a text that best exemplifies the transitional moment from kin-based chiefdoms to monarchical kingdoms in the Indo-Gangetic doab in the mid-first millennium bce. However, lineage building and putting orderly norms of succession into place was a fraught process. The Bharata patriline stared at its imminent extinction at least once every generation, barely perpetuating itself, and always faced with anxiety over its future. This feminist reading ‘peoples’ this story by bringing into its frame those who are on the margins of the royal household but cannot claim kingship. Reading against the grain, the book explores the link between caste, class and gender in a varna-ordered society. It examines how all three colluded with the patriarchs (and the occasional matriarch) to ensure the survival of the lineage. The fallout was the denial of women’s sexual autonomy and the reifying of their wombs to create a field for the seeds of the Bharata men or their proxies. Consequently, an already imperilled and blighted Kuru lineage is torn asunder by fratricidal contradictions, leading to death and destruction, and the end of an era. |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type | BOOKs |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Materials specified (bound volume or other part) | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Cost, normal purchase price | Total Checkouts | Total Renewals | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Date last checked out | Price effective from | Koha item type | Public note |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | PB | National Law School | National Law School | General Stacks | 12.06.2024 | Purchased - Segment Book | 950.00 | 2 | 1 | 321.8 CHA | 39661 | 28.07.2025 | 21.07.2025 | 12.06.2024 | BOOKs | Recommended by Dr. Chandraban P Yadav |
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