Winged Stallions and Wicked Mares: Horses in Indian Myth and History (Richard Lectures)
University of Virginia Press
ISBN13:
9780813945750
$40.79
Explores the horse in Indian mythology and history. Despite the fact that horses were imported to India and associated with foreigners and conquerors, Indian villagers created wonderful stories and brilliant visual images of horses. The author relates how Turkish horses, tribal horses, Dalit horses, Hindu stallions, and Arab mares all mix in streams of story that raise issues about the assimilation of foreign cultures in India--
- | Author: Wendy Doniger
- | Publisher: University of Virginia Press
- | Publication Date: April 27, 2021
- | Number of Pages: 300 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 0813945755
- | ISBN-13: 9780813945750
- Author:
- Wendy Doniger
- Publisher:
- University of Virginia Press
- Publication Date:
- April 27, 2021
- Number of pages:
- 300 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10:
- 0813945755
- ISBN-13:
- 9780813945750