Freedom Between Order and Chaos: Reading a Political Satire From India

Freedom Between Order and Chaos: Reading a Political Satire From India Jyotirmaya Sharma (University of Hyderabad) speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 16 May 2022. For queries, please contact seminar convenors at saih@history Hasyarnava or The Ocean of Mirth, a medieval Sanskrit political satire, delineates two compelling themes that require serious consideration. First, the Indic traditions underline the centrality of order in a polity. This preoccupation is underlined by the supremacy of the Rajadharma-dandaniti framework. A great deal of violence and cruelty inheres within this framework. Second, if the order is the site for violence and force, it follows that a glimpse of freedom, unshackled from the conventional implications of the purusharthas can only be had in upholding the desirability of disorder.

You can listen to Freedom Between Order and Chaos: Reading a Political Satire From India online on Radio and Podcast. Open the player on this page to stream the available audio.

Freedom Between Order and Chaos: Reading a Political Satire From India is an episode from Asian Studies Centre by Oxford University.

This episode is 34:08 long.

This episode was published on Sep 23, 2022.

Yes. Use the heart button on the episode page to add it to your favorite episodes list.

Yes. This page shows related episodes from Asian Studies Centre when more episodes are available from the podcast feed.