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DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nFriday, March 31, 2023 9:00 am to 10:30 a
 m \n In-person, JHB 318 \n Jackman Humanities Building \n 170 St George S
 treet, Toronto ON M5R 2M8 \n\nSpeakers \nKashi Gomez (University of Pe\ns
 ylvania) \n\nDescription: \nIn the 1730s, a court minister named Ghanaśyā
 ma wrote a set of literary commentaries alongside his two wives, Sundarī 
 and Kamalā. This scholastic household operated under the patronage of the 
 Maratha rulers of Tanjavur in South India. The Marathas were one among sev
 eral newly established royal families in the Karnatak and Coromandel Coast
  region. In this talk, Kashi Gomez examines the methodological possibilit
 ies for reading early modern Sanskrit commentaries as productive historica
 l archives. She argues that Ghanaśyāma, Sundarī, and Kamalā record Brahm
 inical social anxieties about gender, sexuality, and local politics in t
 he trappings of grammatical minutiae. In an unusual interpretive move this
  commentarial family turns a non-event into an event. They concoct a charg
 ed reference to an incident of adopted heirship in a literary text that ob
 liquely recalls the anxieties that preceded their Maratha patron’s rise to
  power.About Kashi GomezKashi Gomez is Lecturer in Sanskrit in the Departm
 ent of South Asia Studies at the University of Pe\nsylvania. Her research 
 examines avenues of access to Sanskrit for elite women in early modernity 
 and reevaluates the cosmopolitan aesthetic of Sanskrit. Sanskrit was and c
 ontinues to be a defining language of Brahmin religious and social identit
 ies. It was and is a language written almost exclusively by men and is ens
 hrined by literary theory as inherently representing the male voice. Her c
 urrent work highlights the centrality of gender in defining the aesthetics
  of Sanskrit.Her current book project examines the intellectual and social
  invest-ments of two co-wives and their husband who were writing Sanskrit 
 commentaries in eighteenth-century Maratha-ruled Tanjavur. The book explor
 es new articulations of regional identity and investments in strīdharma (t
 he ritual and social obligations of women) that were emerging in Brahmin S
 anskrit-intellectual circles at this regional court.Presented by the Pract
 ices of Commentary Lecture Series \n\nSponsors \nPractices of Commentary L
 ecture Series \n170 St George Street, Toronto ON M5R 2M8 \n\nCategories 
 \n Lecture \n\nAudiences \n U of T CommunityGraduate StudentsUndergraduate
  Students
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LOCATION:170 St George Street, Toronto ON M5R 2M8
SUMMARY:Kashi Gomez: Sanskrit Commentaries as Early Modern Archives
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 ommentaries-early-modern-archives
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