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This work highlights debates in the epics among men and women from all sections of society. These debates criticise discrimination based on gender, varna, pover
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Acclaimed novelist and academic Tabish Khair argues that literature as a distinct mode of thinking can counteract fundamentalism. Literature is a mode of thinki
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Krishna's Mahabharatas: Devotional Retellings of an Epic Narrative is a comprehensive study of premodern regional Mahabharata retellings. This book argues that
The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Philosophy and Gender
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