| #2387871 in Books | 2011-04-12 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.10 x.70 x5.50l,.75 | File type: PDF | 296 pages|||Through a timeless character of legend and literature, we are allowed a ringside view of our most fascinating cultural—and gendered—history. (India Today)
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The figure of Sakuntala appears in many forms throughout South Asian literature, most famously in the Mahabharata and in Kalidisa's fourth-century Sanskrit play, Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection. In these two texts, Sakuntala undergoes a critical transformation, relinquishing her assertiveness and autonomy to become the quintessentially submissive woman, revealing much about the performance of Hindu femininity that would come to dominate South Asian c...
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