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A Woman's Ramayana
Candravati's Bengali Epic
Series: Routledge Hindu Studies Series
The Ramaya?a, an Indian epic, is one of the world’s best-loved stories. Made available in English for the first time, this version by a female poet from Bengal is very direct, touching, timely, and accessible. The three-part poem, is a highly individual rendition of the ancient epic inasmuch as...
To Be Published January 31st 2013 by Routledge
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Women in the Hindu Tradition
Rules, Roles and Exceptions
Series: Routledge Hindu Studies Series
This book accounts for the origin and evolution of the nature and roles of women within the Hindu belief system. It explains how the idea of the goddess has been derived from Hindu philosophical ideas and texts of codes of conduct and how particular models of conduct for mortal women have been...
Published September 15th 2011 by Routledge