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Rethinking India's Oral and Classical Epics: Draupadi among Rajputs, Muslims, and Dalits (Religion and Postmodernism Series) 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 and Postmodernism Series) about?
Throughout India and Southeast Asia, ancient classical epics—the <i>Mahabharata</i> and the <i>Ramayana</i>—continue to exert considerable cultural influence. <i>Rethinking India's Oral and Classical Epics</i> offers an unprecedented exploration into South Asia's regional epic traditions.<br> <br> 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 anoth
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Alf Hiltebeitel
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226340517
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Islam, History, Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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 & Postmodernism S) (1999)
- Rethinking India's Oral and Classical Epics: Draupadi among Rajputs, Muslims, and Dalits (Religion and Postmodernism Series) (2001)
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