Kumkum Roy
Biographic Data
| ID | 3935133 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kumkum Roy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kumkum |
| FAMILY NAME | Roy |
| SIGNATURE | ROY K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Delhi |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Beyond the Monkey and the Crocodile: Faunal Friends in the Pañcatantra
The article focuses on the second section of the Pañcatantra, one of the most popular texts from ancient India, to discuss the understanding of friendship as represented through the relationship amongst four rather diverse animals. Friendship is deliberately cultivated through courteous behaviour, the sharing of food and conversation. What is more, it is not simply instrumental—yet, when there is a crisis, friends bond together to save one anothe…
BR 72& 52 /2024 - wl-4395-For the Retrieval of Ramayana; Reading with the Ṛṣi: A Cross-cultural and Comparative Literary Approach to Valmiki’s Ramayana by Robert P Goldman, Hyderabad: Orient BlackSwan…
Robert P. Goldman, Reading with the Rsi: A Cross-Cultural and Comparative Literary Approach to Valmiki’s Ramayana, Hyderabad, Orient Blackswan Private Limited, 2023, Rs 385/ -pp. xvii, 54 Natasha Sarkar, Whose Ramayana is it anyway? Ahmedabad, Mapin Publishing Pvt. Ltd, 2024, Rs 1500/- pp. 144
Dharma , Dialogue and Dissent: Is an Inclusive Civilization Possible? Listening to Vidura
Dharma is one of the significant multivalent civilizational concepts that emerged in early India. I explore one strand of the meanings of this term as exemplified by the figure of Vidura in the Mahābhārata. Admittedly a man of low status, he is also regarded as the embodiment of dharma, elucidating it at several points through the text. The definition of dharma that is expounded proves to be relatively expansive, relying on an inclusive understan…
Gendering grief: The Strī Parvan of the Mahābhārata
The article focuses on Śānti Parvan, a small section of the Mahābhārata, describing the scene after the cataclysmic war. It explores the convergences and divergences between masculine and feminine expressions of grief in response to bereavement, as described here. The former appears to be concerned with identities of the dead as kshatriyas and kings. The latter, on the other hand, focuses more centrally on the dead as kinsmen-related through both…
Richard H. Davis, The Bhagavad Gita: A Biography
Poetic Pasts: Patrons, Poets and Lesser Mortals in Bana’s ‘Biography’
The paper sets out to explore the ways in which genealogies, and other literary devices, are used to constitute the identity of Harsavardhana in the Harsacarita authored by Banabhatta. I argue that it is important not only to focus on the avowed subject of the text, but also to examine the ways in which the author represents himself—given that both poet and patron may not have had strong claims to the positions they occupied, this intertwining is…
Devika Rangachari , Invisible Women, Visible Histories: Gender, Society and Polity in North India (Seventh to Twelfth Century AD) , Manohar, New Delhi, 2009, 531 pages
Recent Historiography of Ancient India
Domesticating the king: The royal household in early North India
The Family in ancient India: Ideal and reality
Unravelling the Kāmasutra1
Marriage as Communication: An Exploration of Norms and Narratives in Early India
Defining the Household: Some Aspects of Prescription and Practice in Early India
In which part of south Asia did the early brahmanical tradition (1st millennium B.C.) take its form
In which part of south Asia did the early brahmanical tradition (1st millennium B.C.) take its form
Marriage as Communication: An Exploration of Norms and Narratives in Early India
Defining the Household: Some Aspects of Prescription and Practice in Early India
Domesticating the king: The royal household in early North India
The Family in ancient India: Ideal and reality
Unravelling the Kāmasutra1
Recent Historiography of Ancient India
Devika Rangachari , Invisible Women, Visible Histories: Gender, Society and Polity in North India (Seventh to Twelfth Century AD) , Manohar, New Delhi, 2009, 531 pages
Poetic Pasts: Patrons, Poets and Lesser Mortals in Bana’s ‘Biography’
The paper sets out to explore the ways in which genealogies, and other literary devices, are used to constitute the identity of Harsavardhana in the Harsacarita authored by Banabhatta. I argue that it is important not only to focus on the avowed subject of the text, but also to examine the ways in which the author represents himself—given that both poet and patron may not have had strong claims to the positions they occupied, this intertwining is…
Richard H. Davis, The Bhagavad Gita: A Biography
Gendering grief: The Strī Parvan of the Mahābhārata
The article focuses on Śānti Parvan, a small section of the Mahābhārata, describing the scene after the cataclysmic war. It explores the convergences and divergences between masculine and feminine expressions of grief in response to bereavement, as described here. The former appears to be concerned with identities of the dead as kshatriyas and kings. The latter, on the other hand, focuses more centrally on the dead as kinsmen-related through both…
Dharma , Dialogue and Dissent: Is an Inclusive Civilization Possible? Listening to Vidura
Dharma is one of the significant multivalent civilizational concepts that emerged in early India. I explore one strand of the meanings of this term as exemplified by the figure of Vidura in the Mahābhārata. Admittedly a man of low status, he is also regarded as the embodiment of dharma, elucidating it at several points through the text. The definition of dharma that is expounded proves to be relatively expansive, relying on an inclusive understan…
Beyond the Monkey and the Crocodile: Faunal Friends in the Pañcatantra
The article focuses on the second section of the Pañcatantra, one of the most popular texts from ancient India, to discuss the understanding of friendship as represented through the relationship amongst four rather diverse animals. Friendship is deliberately cultivated through courteous behaviour, the sharing of food and conversation. What is more, it is not simply instrumental—yet, when there is a crisis, friends bond together to save one anothe…
BR 72& 52 /2024 - wl-4395-For the Retrieval of Ramayana; Reading with the Ṛṣi: A Cross-cultural and Comparative Literary Approach to Valmiki’s Ramayana by Robert P Goldman, Hyderabad: Orient BlackSwan…
Robert P. Goldman, Reading with the Rsi: A Cross-Cultural and Comparative Literary Approach to Valmiki’s Ramayana, Hyderabad, Orient Blackswan Private Limited, 2023, Rs 385/ -pp. xvii, 54 Natasha Sarkar, Whose Ramayana is it anyway? Ahmedabad, Mapin Publishing Pvt. Ltd, 2024, Rs 1500/- pp. 144
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