According to north Indian legend, there was once a Shah whose daughter was to marry a minister of...

This collection demonstrates the range of approaches that some of the leading scholars of our day...

In this magisterial volume of essays, Wendy Doniger enhances our understanding of the ancient and...

Recorded in sacred Sanskrit texts, including the Rig Veda and the Mahabharata, Hindu Myths are th...

In this volume, leading American, European, and Indian scholars including John E. Cort, Friedhelm...

How did Brahma create alluring women, and for what purpose? Why didthe righteous King Bhangashvan...

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Whereas many books look at how women's 'bodies' are represented in different religions and cultur...

Offers a portrait of India as seen through the eyes of a sensitive, sharp-eyed, and witty young s...

Twenty-two-year-oldWendy Doniger arrived in Calcutta in August 1963, on a scholarship to study Sa...

Che cos'è la realtà? Non appena lasciamo i rassicuranti ormeggi del senso comune, il contenuto di...

The classic novel of a middle-aged man's affair with a worldly younger woman.