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A Woman's Ramayana
Candravati's Bengali Epic
Series: Routledge Hindu Studies Series
The Ramayana, an ancient epic of India, with audiences across vast stretches of time and geography, continues to influence numberless readers socially and morally through its many re-tellings. Made available in English for the first time, the 16th century version presented here is by Candravati, a...
To Be Published June 10th 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