Rethinking India's Oral and Classical Epics: Draupadi Among Rajputs, Muslims, and Dalits

by Alf Hiltebeitel

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226340511
• ISBN13: 9780226340517
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 574 Pages
• Weight: 1.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"