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...

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

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

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

The earliest of the four Hindu religious scriptures known as the Vedas, and the first extensive c...

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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'This is the story of the contrasting Judaisms that Wendy Doniger's two parents brought from thei...

Elizarenkova, perhaps the greatest living scholar of the Rand certainly its greatest linguist, ex...

¿Qué ocurre cuando entramos en contacto con historias y mitos de otros pueblos? ¿Qué enriquecimie...

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

An engrossing and definitive narrative account of history and myth that offers a new way of under...

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

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

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While focusing on the central problem of evil, the author illuminates every aspect of Hindu thoug...