symposium participants

• THE PROBLEM
  Posed by Rakesh Pandey, Associate Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi

• THE EPIC OF THE BHARATAS
  Romila Thapar, Professor Emeritus of History, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi

• INTERPRETIVE HISTORIES
  Robert P. Goldman and Sally J. Sutherland Goldman, University of California at Berkeley

• THE FAILURE OF DHARMA
  Adam Bowles, Lecturer in Asian Religions, School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics, Faculty of Arts, University of Queensland, Brisbane

• NILAKANTHA'S MAHABHARATA
  C. Minkowski, Boden Professor of Sanskrit, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford; and the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

• A CRITIQUE OF NONVIOLENCE
  Sibaji Bandyopadhyay, Professor of Cultural Studies, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata

• THE PERILS OF TEXTUAL TRANSMISSION: DECAPITATION AND RECAPITULATION
  Vishwa Adluri, Philosophy Department, Hunter College, New York

• THE ASURA AND THE GITA
  Sanjay Palshikar, Fellow, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla; and University of Hyderabad

• THE MIRROR OF EPIC
  Rakesh Pandey, Associate Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi

• LIVING WITH THE MAHABHARATA
  Chaturvedi Badrinath† (1923-2010); philosopher and writer; formerly of the Indian Administrative Service

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