Raja Nal and the Goddess: The North Indian Epic Dhola in Performance

by Susan S. Wadley

"... [T]ells a wonderful story, one much loved in northern India.... fills an important lacuna in the work on oral epic." --Lindsey Harlan Dhola is an oral epic performed primarily by lower-caste, usually illiterate, men in the Braj region of northern India. The story of Raja Nal, "a king who does not know he is a king," this vast epic portrays a world of complex social relationships involving changing and mistaken identities, goddesses, powerful...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253217245
• ISBN13: 9780253217240
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.3"