Narasingha P Sil
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 168747 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Narasingha P Sil |
| NOMBRES | Narasingha P |
| APELLIDO | Sil |
| FIRMA | SIL N P |
| AFILIACIONES | Western Oregon University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8328-267X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1969 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Impersonations
Impersonations: The Artifice of Brahmin Masculinity in South Indian Dance, by Harshita Mruthinti Kamath. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2019. xv + 225 pp., $34.95 (pb). ISBN 9780520301665
The Analect and the Arthaśāstrsa
Kongzi/Kongfuzi or Confucius of “China” and Cānakya/Viṣṇugupta or Kauṭilya of “India” were statesmen as well as teachers, though never professional classroom instructors. They both dedicated themselves to advising royalty and the ruling class in the art of administration as well as in the secrets of success and survival in a world that was at once uncharitable and unprincipled. Nevertheless, both base their counsels on morality—Kongzi on ren [ben…
Religion, Devotion and Medicine in North India
Sharatchandra’s Caste and Gender Consciousness
Sharatchandra Chattopadhyay’s attitude to the prevalent caste system and social ethos, especially concerning sex, love, and marriage and chastity of married as well as widowed women, shows a marked ambivalence. On one hand, his work demonstrates his progressive and liberal ideas emanating from Western contact and impact on late colonial India, and on Bengal in particular. On the other hand, and by the same token, his attitude to love, marriage, a…
Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Sharatchandra Chattopadhyay on Love and Sex
The Bengali novelist Sharatchandra Chattopadhyay (1876-1938) of colonial India and the French philosophe of Enlightenment Europe Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) stand poles apart from each other—temporally, territorially, and culturally. Although Sharatchandra is reputed to have been familiar with a number of romantic writers of England, he does not seem to be acquainted with any literati of Europe, especially of Enlightenment France. Neverthel…
Tipu Sultan in History
This historiographical essay seeks to chart a middle course between what may be called Tipu bashing and, to borrow an expression from Anne Buddle, “Tipu Mania,” with a view to providing a balanced view of Tipu Sultan the man and the statesman. This study is premised on the verdict of Joseph François Michaud who not only admires the Sultan’s courage and noble intentions but also laments his superstition, lack of discretion and farsight, apathy to …
Augustus W.N. Pugin
A.W.N. Pugin, arguably a leading architect and a distinguished engraver and designer of the Gothic Revival movement in Regency England, was a controversial theorist and builder of church who reinvented and refined the ornate Gothic architectural style of pre-modern times by creatively combining it with the rational concept of utility and functionality of the developing industrial civilization and artistic taste of his day. His theoretical writing…
The Odyssey of the Ananda Marga
This paper seeks to examine the ideology and theology of the Ananda Marga (Path of Bliss), a new radical Hindu sect of postcolonial India, by comparing its odyssey with an almost radical Christian sect of Reformation Europe, the Anabaptists. Like the Anabaptists, the Ananda Marga began as a movement of the common man. Both were also millennial movements with lay leadership arising as responses to the social, cultural, and economic crises of their…
Understanding Karma
Kali's child and Krishna's lover
The famous 19th‐century Bengali saint Shri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa has almost universally been regarded as a Shakta (sometimes confused with Tantrika) devotee of the Mother Goddess Kali. His association with the Kali temple at Daksineshvar, in the northern suburb of Calcutta, has no doubt been a powerful argument behind his Shakta/Tantrika affiliation. This paper argues that Ramakrishna was essentially a bhakta (devotee) in the Vaisnava tradition…
Wisdom of the lands of mount olympus and mount kailāsa
Bande Mataram
(2002). Bande Mataram: Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay's nationalist thought revisited. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies: Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 121-142
Saradamani's Holy Motherhood
Saradamani's reputation as the Holy Mother of the Ramakrishna Order is derived from two predominant factors. First, her devotees and disciples loved her as their own mother and worshipped her as a goddess. This status was acquired by her as she was the widow of the late Ramakrishna Paramabamsa, who had himself been considered a god. Second, and more important, Sarada's conduct and moral character endeared her to everyone who came in contact with …
Is Ramakrishna a Vedantin, a Tantrika or a Vaishnava? An examination
Swami Vivekananda in the west
House of Cards
Vivekananda's Ramakrsna
The author argues that the familiar Vedantin and messiah image of Rāmakrsna Paramahamsa was created deliberately by his great disciple Svāmā Vivekananda. The Svāmī's global Hindu evangelical mission called for the master's respectable image. Hence he rejected the sincere rendering of the Paramahamsa's biographies by others and, in place of the rustic ecstatic but authentic Gadadhar, fabricated the awesome figure of a modern messiah-the Vedantin P…
Nigerian Intellectuals and Socialism
ManyNigerian intellectuals have persisted in their enthusiasm for a socialist revolution. Historians, political scientists, sociologists, economists, novelists, and playwrights in the universities have presented a Marxist critique of the political economy and society, and variously sought to provide a socialist solution to the multiple ills of their country. For example, in November 1985, Tunji Braithwaite was insisting that 'socialism is the way…
Caesaropopulism in Action
This article argues that American involvement, that is, intervention, in the Third World is predicated upon a distinctly discernible pattern and policy. The two recent cases of U.S. intervention — in Panama in December 1989 and in the Persian-Gulf in January 1991 — illustrate my point. In each instance, the U.S. invasion was Justified as a moral and patriotic mission in defense of freedom, justice, and national interests against villainous enemie…
Kauṭilya's Arthaśāstra
Sir William Herbert in Tudor Politics, 1547-53
Herbert is usually seen as a schemer loyal to none but himself. This paper attempts to penetrate behind the generally recognized "Machiavellian" facade of his character. It reveals what may be considered the most plausible character of the man: ambitious, artful, but not altogether a monster of avarice without any redeeming features
The Rise and Fall of Sir John Gates
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The Earl of Pembroke and the Crisis in Queen Mary's Reign, 1553-58
NARASINGHA P
The Earl of Pembroke in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth I, 1558-1570
Sir Anthony Denny
an unusually uneventful career in the turbulent reign of Henry VIII. His life, humdrum and honest, remained unaffected by the habitual excitement and turmoil of court politics. Until recently he has thus been generally dismissed as an inconsequential figure.* One scholar even stated that Denny was not much of anything at all, except a lifelong friend of King Henry. According to her, "it is difficult to under- stand" why"Henry, goodjudgeofcharacte…
Vivekananda's Ramakrsna
The author argues that the familiar Vedantin and messiah image of Rāmakrsna Paramahamsa was created deliberately by his great disciple Svāmā Vivekananda. The Svāmī's global Hindu evangelical mission called for the master's respectable image. Hence he rejected the sincere rendering of the Paramahamsa's biographies by others and, in place of the rustic ecstatic but authentic Gadadhar, fabricated the awesome figure of a modern messiah-the Vedantin P…
Nigerian Intellectuals and Socialism
ManyNigerian intellectuals have persisted in their enthusiasm for a socialist revolution. Historians, political scientists, sociologists, economists, novelists, and playwrights in the universities have presented a Marxist critique of the political economy and society, and variously sought to provide a socialist solution to the multiple ills of their country. For example, in November 1985, Tunji Braithwaite was insisting that 'socialism is the way…
Swami Vivekananda in the west
The Rise and Fall of Sir John Gates
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Earl of Pembroke and the Crisis in Queen Mary's Reign, 1553-58
NARASINGHA P
The Earl of Pembroke in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth I, 1558-1570
Sir Anthony Denny
an unusually uneventful career in the turbulent reign of Henry VIII. His life, humdrum and honest, remained unaffected by the habitual excitement and turmoil of court politics. Until recently he has thus been generally dismissed as an inconsequential figure.* One scholar even stated that Denny was not much of anything at all, except a lifelong friend of King Henry. According to her, "it is difficult to under- stand" why"Henry, goodjudgeofcharacte…
The Rise and Fall of Sir John Gates
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Sir William Herbert in Tudor Politics, 1547-53
Herbert is usually seen as a schemer loyal to none but himself. This paper attempts to penetrate behind the generally recognized "Machiavellian" facade of his character. It reveals what may be considered the most plausible character of the man: ambitious, artful, but not altogether a monster of avarice without any redeeming features
Kauṭilya's Arthaśāstra
Caesaropopulism in Action
This article argues that American involvement, that is, intervention, in the Third World is predicated upon a distinctly discernible pattern and policy. The two recent cases of U.S. intervention — in Panama in December 1989 and in the Persian-Gulf in January 1991 — illustrate my point. In each instance, the U.S. invasion was Justified as a moral and patriotic mission in defense of freedom, justice, and national interests against villainous enemie…
Vivekananda's Ramakrsna
The author argues that the familiar Vedantin and messiah image of Rāmakrsna Paramahamsa was created deliberately by his great disciple Svāmā Vivekananda. The Svāmī's global Hindu evangelical mission called for the master's respectable image. Hence he rejected the sincere rendering of the Paramahamsa's biographies by others and, in place of the rustic ecstatic but authentic Gadadhar, fabricated the awesome figure of a modern messiah-the Vedantin P…
Nigerian Intellectuals and Socialism
ManyNigerian intellectuals have persisted in their enthusiasm for a socialist revolution. Historians, political scientists, sociologists, economists, novelists, and playwrights in the universities have presented a Marxist critique of the political economy and society, and variously sought to provide a socialist solution to the multiple ills of their country. For example, in November 1985, Tunji Braithwaite was insisting that 'socialism is the way…
House of Cards
Swami Vivekananda in the west
Is Ramakrishna a Vedantin, a Tantrika or a Vaishnava? An examination
Saradamani's Holy Motherhood
Saradamani's reputation as the Holy Mother of the Ramakrishna Order is derived from two predominant factors. First, her devotees and disciples loved her as their own mother and worshipped her as a goddess. This status was acquired by her as she was the widow of the late Ramakrishna Paramabamsa, who had himself been considered a god. Second, and more important, Sarada's conduct and moral character endeared her to everyone who came in contact with …
Bande Mataram
(2002). Bande Mataram: Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay's nationalist thought revisited. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies: Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 121-142
Wisdom of the lands of mount olympus and mount kailāsa
Understanding Karma
Kali's child and Krishna's lover
The famous 19th‐century Bengali saint Shri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa has almost universally been regarded as a Shakta (sometimes confused with Tantrika) devotee of the Mother Goddess Kali. His association with the Kali temple at Daksineshvar, in the northern suburb of Calcutta, has no doubt been a powerful argument behind his Shakta/Tantrika affiliation. This paper argues that Ramakrishna was essentially a bhakta (devotee) in the Vaisnava tradition…
Tipu Sultan in History
This historiographical essay seeks to chart a middle course between what may be called Tipu bashing and, to borrow an expression from Anne Buddle, “Tipu Mania,” with a view to providing a balanced view of Tipu Sultan the man and the statesman. This study is premised on the verdict of Joseph François Michaud who not only admires the Sultan’s courage and noble intentions but also laments his superstition, lack of discretion and farsight, apathy to …
Augustus W.N. Pugin
A.W.N. Pugin, arguably a leading architect and a distinguished engraver and designer of the Gothic Revival movement in Regency England, was a controversial theorist and builder of church who reinvented and refined the ornate Gothic architectural style of pre-modern times by creatively combining it with the rational concept of utility and functionality of the developing industrial civilization and artistic taste of his day. His theoretical writing…
The Odyssey of the Ananda Marga
This paper seeks to examine the ideology and theology of the Ananda Marga (Path of Bliss), a new radical Hindu sect of postcolonial India, by comparing its odyssey with an almost radical Christian sect of Reformation Europe, the Anabaptists. Like the Anabaptists, the Ananda Marga began as a movement of the common man. Both were also millennial movements with lay leadership arising as responses to the social, cultural, and economic crises of their…
Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Sharatchandra Chattopadhyay on Love and Sex
The Bengali novelist Sharatchandra Chattopadhyay (1876-1938) of colonial India and the French philosophe of Enlightenment Europe Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) stand poles apart from each other—temporally, territorially, and culturally. Although Sharatchandra is reputed to have been familiar with a number of romantic writers of England, he does not seem to be acquainted with any literati of Europe, especially of Enlightenment France. Neverthel…
Sharatchandra’s Caste and Gender Consciousness
Sharatchandra Chattopadhyay’s attitude to the prevalent caste system and social ethos, especially concerning sex, love, and marriage and chastity of married as well as widowed women, shows a marked ambivalence. On one hand, his work demonstrates his progressive and liberal ideas emanating from Western contact and impact on late colonial India, and on Bengal in particular. On the other hand, and by the same token, his attitude to love, marriage, a…
Religion, Devotion and Medicine in North India
The Analect and the Arthaśāstrsa
Kongzi/Kongfuzi or Confucius of “China” and Cānakya/Viṣṇugupta or Kauṭilya of “India” were statesmen as well as teachers, though never professional classroom instructors. They both dedicated themselves to advising royalty and the ruling class in the art of administration as well as in the secrets of success and survival in a world that was at once uncharitable and unprincipled. Nevertheless, both base their counsels on morality—Kongzi on ren [ben…
Impersonations
Impersonations: The Artifice of Brahmin Masculinity in South Indian Dance, by Harshita Mruthinti Kamath. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2019. xv + 225 pp., $34.95 (pb). ISBN 9780520301665
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