Contemporaneity of the Mahabharata Narrative: Epic of the Moment

This volume looks at the problem from diverse periods and standpoints and shows us that this challenge is, in fact, a legacy of the Mahabharata and the responses to this challenge is what makes the text ever-contemporary to different readers of different times and positions.

Anirban Bhattacharjee (PhD, CSSSC Kolkata) is an Assistant Professor of English of Santipur College and a visiting faculty at IISER, Kolkata. He has a sustained interest in the Mahabharata and is part of several international research groups on the text. He presented the opening plenary of 2018 meeting of South Asian Literary Association. His recently edited volume is titled Mahabharate Himsa (2022).

Dhrubajyoti Sarkar teaches at the Department of English, University of Kalyani. His research interests are religious nationalism and religion-culture interface in the context of nineteenth-century South Asia.