Sakuntala: Texts, Readings, Histories - Hardcover
The importance of Sakuntala as personifying Indian womanhood in Indian literature and culture is undisputed. This book attempts to explore some of the links between culture, history and gender, and between literature and history, through reading variant versions of the narrative of Sakuntala. These include the stories in the Mahabharata, the play by Kalidasa, and the eighteenth-century katha in Braj. The transformation of Sakuntala from an autonomous, assertive figure in the Mahabharata, to the quintessential submissive woman in the Kalidasa version, is carefully examined by the author through a fascinating reading of the texts and translations of the play in India and Europe.
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The importance of Sakuntala as personifying Indian womanhood in Indian literature and culture is undisputed. This book attempts to explore some of the links between culture, history and gender and between literature and history by reading variant versions of the narrative of Sakuntala.
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Romila Thapar is Emeritus Professor of History at the Jawarharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
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- PublisherKali for Women
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 8186706119
- ISBN 13 9788186706114
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages272
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Sakuntala: Texts, Readings, Histories
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