This book focuses on the cohering elements across various texts and
traditions of India. It engages with several significant works from the
Sanskrit tradition and emphasizes the need to move beyond colonial and
postcolonial engagements with the enduring cultural pasts of India. The
chapters are grouped in three main parts: accented rhythms,
dispersed mnemoscapes and inventive iterations. It addresses
questions such as: what enabled cultural communication across very
divergent geographical, temporal, locational contexts and among
different cultural formations of India over millennia? What is this
shareable impulse that pulsates across the domains of dance, sculpture,
painting, poetry, dharma, music, medicine, the lore of rivers and the
epics? It explains how modern Indian languages and especially their
creative and reflective nodes are unthinkable without the intricately
woven textures of these interfaces and their responsive receptions. This
book is of interest to philosophers, humanities students, researchers
and professors as well as people interested in exploring alternatives to
European traditions of thought without an alibi.