Shanti Parav
Kali, Des Raj
Written after the great war of Kurukshetra, Shanti Parva, the twelfth book of the Mahabharata, is a treatise on peace, the ideals of statehood and peaceful governance, which also simultaneously justifies upper-caste hegemony, hierarchy and the need for organised violence. Des Raj Kali s Shanti Parav, in contrast, brilliantly parodies the peace claims of its source text and provides a radical Dalit response from the margins of history to these ...