Chastity In Ancient Indian Texts
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Author | : Oly Roy |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 131 |
Release | : 2022-08-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 100063499X |
This book looks at the representation and practice of chastity in selective ancient Indian texts. It studies how and when the concept originated and in what ways it was intertwined with the social, cultural, and economic notions of Indian society. Drawing on seminal Indian texts such as the MahāPurāṇas, Rāmāyaṇa, Mahābhārata, Sattasaī and the Jātakas, the volume delves into the social and reproductive rights of women through an examination of the norms of chastity, virginity, and Pātivratya, which were construed according to a patriarchal hierarchy of the society and implemented as a means of strengthening patriarchal authority. It also examines the interinfluence of various religious traditions that emerged on the very concept of chastity and the ideologies they later gave rise to. A comprehensive study of sexuality and gender in early India, the book will be indispensable to students, teachers, and researchers of gender studies, literature, women’s studies, women’s rights, feminism, South Asian studies, and social history of Ancient India.
Author | : J.A.B. van Buitenen |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2015-07-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 022623018X |
"This admirably produced and well-translated volume of stories from the Sanskrit takes the Western reader into one of the Golden Ages of India. . . . The world in which the tales are set is one which placed a premium upon slickness and guile as aids to success. . . . Merchants, aristocrats, Brahmins, thieves and courtesans mingle with vampires, demi-gods and the hierarchy of heaven in a series of lively or passionate adventures. The sources of the individual stories are clearly indicated; the whole treatment is scholarly without being arid."—The Times Literary Supplement "Fourteen tales from India, newly translated with a terse and vibrant effectiveness. These tales will appeal to any reader who enjoys action, suspense, characterization, and suspension of disbelief in the supernatural."—The Personalist
Author | : Sisir Kumar Das |
Publisher | : Sahitya Akademi |
Total Pages | : 936 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : India |
ISBN | : 9788172017989 |
Presents the Indian literatures, not in isolation in one another, but as related components in a larger complex, conspicuous by the existence of age-old multilingualism and a variety of literary traditions. --
Author | : T. R. S. Sharma |
Publisher | : Sahitya Akademi |
Total Pages | : 942 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : India literature |
ISBN | : 9788126007943 |
Author | : L. P. N. Perera |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Sex |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Johannes Bronkhorst |
Publisher | : Motilal Banarsidass Publ. |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9788120815513 |
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Author | : Johann Jakob Meyer |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 2013-10-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1136889132 |
First Published in 2005. This is book attempts to give a true and vivid account of the life of woman in ancient India, based upon the immense masses of material imbedded in the two great Epics, the Mahabharata and the Ramayana.
Author | : Johann Jakob Meyer |
Publisher | : Motilal Banarsidass Publishing House |
Total Pages | : 620 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9788120806382 |
Author | : Preetha Mani |
Publisher | : Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages | : 413 |
Release | : 2022-08-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0810145014 |
Indian literature is not a corpus of texts or literary concepts from India, argues Preetha Mani, but a provocation that seeks to resolve the relationship between language and literature, written in as well as against English. Examining canonical Hindi and Tamil short stories from the crucial decades surrounding decolonization, Mani contends that Indian literature must be understood as indeterminate, propositional, and reflective of changing dynamics between local, regional, national, and global readerships. In The Idea of Indian Literature, she explores the paradox that a single canon can be written in multiple languages, each with their own evolving relationships to one another and to English. Hindi, representing national aspirations, and Tamil, epitomizing the secessionist propensities of the region, are conventionally viewed as poles of the multilingual continuum within Indian literature. Mani shows, however, that during the twentieth century, these literatures were coconstitutive of one another and of the idea of Indian literature itself. The writers discussed here—from short-story forefathers Premchand and Pudumaippittan to women trailblazers Mannu Bhandari and R. Chudamani—imagined a pan-Indian literature based on literary, rather than linguistic, norms, even as their aims were profoundly shaped by discussions of belonging unique to regional identity. Tracing representations of gender and the uses of genre in the shifting thematic and aesthetic practices of short vernacular prose writing, the book offers a view of the Indian literary landscape as itself a field for comparative literature.
Author | : Sisir Kumar Das |
Publisher | : Sahitya Akademi |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : India |
ISBN | : 9788126021710 |
The Present Volume Deals With The First Nine Hundred Years Of The Medieval Period Of Indian Literary History.A History Of Indian Literature Is An Account Of The Literary Activities Of The Indian People Carried Through In Many Languages And Under Different Social Conditions. It Is The Story Of A Multilingual Literature, A Plurality Of Linguistic Expressions And Cultural Experience And Also Of The Remarkable Unity Underlying Them.