Religion, Narrative and Public Imagination in South Asia : Past and Place in the Sanskrit Mahabharata.

Arguing that the combination of structural and thematic features which have helped to establish the enduring cultural centrality of religious narrative in South Asia, this book presents the Mahabharata's complex orientation to the cosmic, social and textual past. It highlights the contexts of o...

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Main Author: Hegarty, James
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2011.
Series:RoutledgeCurzon Hindu studies series.
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