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Introduction: To Do Vrinda Dalmiya and Gangeya Mukherji PART I: ACTION Mahabharata. Itihasa. Agency Sibesh Chandra Bhattacharya In Search of Genuine Agency: A Review of Action, Freedom and Karma in the Mahābhārata Amita Chatterjee The Theory of Karma in the Mahābhārata Christopher Framarin Karmayoga and the Vexed Moral Agent Arti Dhand PART II: ACTOR Complexities in the Agency for Violence: A Look at the Mahabharata Gangeya Mukherji Irresolution and Agency: The Case of Yudhishthira Shirshendu Chakrabarti Can the Subhuman Speak or Act? Sagacious Serpents, Benevolent Birds, Rational Rodents, and a Mocking Mongoose in the Mahābhārata Arindam Chakrabarti Textual–Sexual Transitions: The Reification of Women in the Mahabharata Uma Chakravarti ‘Ekalavya and the Possibility of Learning’ Sundar Sarukkai PART III: EPIC AGENCY AND RETELLINGS Tagore’s Readings of the Mahabharata Sudipta Kaviraj Answerability between Lived Life and Living Text: Chronotopicity in finding Agency in the Mahabharata Lakshmi Bandlamudi 12. Dronòa in the Ekalavya Episode in Sāralā Mahābhārata B. N. Patnaik Index