Retelling Time
Retelling Time challenges the hegemony of colonial modernity over academic disciplines and over ways in which we think about something as fundamental as time. It reclaims a bouquet of alternative practices of time from premodern South Asia, which stem from worldviews that have been marginalized.
These practices relate to a range of classical and vernacular genres including alaṃkāra, theravāda, yoga...
Retelling Time challenges the hegemony of colonial modernity over academic disciplines and over ways in which we think about something as fundamental as time. It reclaims a bouquet of alternative practices of time from premodern South Asia, which stem from worldviews that have been marginalized.
These practices relate to a range of classical and vernacular genres including alaṃkāra, theravāda, yoga...