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Religion, narrative and public imagination in South Asia: Past and place in the Sanskrit Mahabharata

‘Religion, Narrative and Public Imagination in South Asia’ is a single-authored monograph counting 219 pages (100,000 words), far more than can be expected from 2 ‘normal’ research outputs such as peer-reviewed journal articles or chapters in books. The book presents a new synthesis of philological, anthropological and cognitive-linguistic method and theory in relation to the study of narrative text by studying the form and function of the Sanskrit Mahabharata in the context of early South Asia. It highlights the contexts of origin and transmission and the cultural function of the Mahabharata by drawing on both textual and epigraphic sources.