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Rethinking India's Oral and Classical Epics: Draupadi among Rajputs, Muslims, and Dalits (Religion & Postmodernism S) by Alf Hiltebeitel is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Rethinking India's Oral and Classical Epics: Draupadi among Rajputs, Muslims, and Dalits (Religion & Postmodernism S) about?
Throughout India and Southeast Asia, ancient classical epics—the Mahabharata and the Ramayana—continue to exert considerable cultural influence. Rethinking India's Oral and Classical Epics offers an unprecedented exploration into South Asia's regional epic traditions. Using his own fieldwork as a starting point, Alf Hiltebeitel analyzes how the oral tradition of the south Indian cult of the goddess Draupadi and five regional martial oral epics compare with one another and tie in with the Sanskri
Who reads Rethinking India's Oral and Classical Epics: Draupadi among Rajputs, Muslims, and Dalits (Religion & Postmodernism S)?
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Alf Hiltebeitel
- Publisher
- Chicago, Il.: University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226340500
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Religion, Literary Criticism, Islam
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
Other editions & translations
- Rethinking India's Oral and Classical Epics: Draupadi among Rajputs, Muslims, and Dalits (Religion & Postmodernism S) (2009)
- Rethinking India's Oral and Classical Epics: Draupadi among Rajputs, Muslims, and Dalits (Religion and Postmodernism Series) (2001)
- Rethinking India's Oral and Classical Epics: Draupadi among Rajputs, Muslims, and Dalits (Religion and Postmodernism Series) (1999)
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