TY - JOUR
T1 - Cognitive Tools for Narrating the Past
T2 - A Study of Classical India
AU - Guha, Nirmalya
N1 - Funding Information:
I am deeply indebted to Dr. Nikhil Govind (Manipal Centre for Humanities, Manipal Academy of Higher Education) and Dr. Vinita Chandra (Department of Humanistic Studies, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi) for their comments and suggestions on an earlier draft of this paper.
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PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - The classical Indian variety of history may be called ‘istory’. It is not completely true that no real importance was attached to istory in classical India. But much of oral istorical literature is lost since—perhaps—narrating istory was considered a performance. Unlike historical narratives, istorical narratives are presentative, not representative. Istory can be understood as a system of narrating past events that has a purpose and poetic beauty. Finally, the paper will argue that istory is based on cognitive tools of two types: epistemic tools such as testimony, inference, tarka and aesthetic tools. Thus, it has a hybrid cognitive method.
AB - The classical Indian variety of history may be called ‘istory’. It is not completely true that no real importance was attached to istory in classical India. But much of oral istorical literature is lost since—perhaps—narrating istory was considered a performance. Unlike historical narratives, istorical narratives are presentative, not representative. Istory can be understood as a system of narrating past events that has a purpose and poetic beauty. Finally, the paper will argue that istory is based on cognitive tools of two types: epistemic tools such as testimony, inference, tarka and aesthetic tools. Thus, it has a hybrid cognitive method.
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U2 - 10.1007/s40961-023-00287-z
DO - 10.1007/s40961-023-00287-z
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85158085546
SN - 0970-7794
VL - 39
SP - 237
EP - 248
JO - Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research
JF - Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research
IS - 3
ER -