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ArjunaOne of the five brothers who are the heroes of the Mahabharata. His reluctance to go into battle prompts Krishna, manifested as his friend and charioteer, to deliver the discourse on duty that constitutes the Bhagavadgita. An exemplar of skill, duty, and compassion as well as a seeker of true knowledge, Arjuna is a central figure in Hindu myth and theology. Arjuna called upon by duty to be a warrior, he refuses to join the fratricidal battle. [Hindu Lit.: The Bhagavad-Gita in Benét, 103] See : Antimilitarism Arjuna hero of the civil war between two royal houses of ancient India. [Hindu Lit.: Mahabharata] See : Heroism Arjuna Sanskrit name means sinless. [Hindu Myth.: Benét, 50] See : Innocence
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Partha Chatterjee and feminist cultural analysts of South Asia have argued that anticolonial Indian nationalism created homologous dichotomies such as Indian/Western, spiritual/material, private/public, tradition/modernity, home/world, inner/outer, and female/male in order to produce a nationalist identity that could be seen as separate from and superior to Western domination. In his seminal contribution to post-colonial theory, Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World (1986), (3) Partha Chatterjee suggests that nationalism in the colonial context is faced with a peculiar problem. Lots of relief material has come but we have got very little," Partha Debnath, a teacher, told the BBC. |
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