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Gender Studies
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2013
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vol. 12
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issue 1
164-176
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In Raja Rao’s novel The Cat and Shakespeare the existential quest of Pai, an Indian male, can be studied as mirroring that of Hamlet. However, Pai's progress consists in his resistance to the stereotyped power-imbued values of both ‘Shakespeare’s’ and his own culture, i. e. those related to colonization, radical authoritarian nationalism, caste, species and gender, the last-mentioned being the focus of this paper.
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The article presents the issue of religious and philosophical education in India during the Upanishadic period. It starts by placing the discussed phenomenon in the context of the history of ideas and the evolution of literature from the Vedas, through the Brahmanas and the Aranyakas, to the Upanishads. A proper analysis of the issue ensues by showing the reasons for the popularity of such education in India. In fact, it stems from the purpose of human life. The Upanishads are highly educational texts in both their philosophical and practical layers. Consequently, they were used to describe the teachings and methods which over time came close to the teachings of Samkhya and Yoga.
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