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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 Sanskrit epics. Drawing on literary theory and cultural studies, he reveals the shared subtexts of the Draupadi cult __Mahabharata__ and the five oral epics, and shows how the traditional plots are twisted and classical characters reshaped to reflect local history and religion. In doing so, Hiltebeitel sheds new light on the intertwining oral traditions of medieval Rajput military culture, Dalits ("former Untouchables"), and Muslims. Breathtaking in scope, this work is indispensable for those seeking a deeper understanding of South Asia's Hindu and Muslim traditions. This work is the third volume in Hiltebeitel's study of the Draupadi cult. Other volumes include __Mythologies: From Ging

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Author

Alf Hiltebeitel

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226340500

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Religion, Islam, History

Updated

2026-03-24