Mandakranta Bose: 2 books
A Woman's Ramayana
Candrāvatī's Bengali Epic
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
The Rāmāyana, 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 Candrāvatī,...
Women in the Hindu Tradition
Rules, Roles and Exceptions
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2010
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 created....