The Hindu Widow in Indian Literature

By Rajul Sogani

This book examines novels about widowhood in eight Indian languages--Bengali, Gujerati, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi and Urdu--written in the last 150 years. In the process it uncovers the, often contradictory, attitudes towards widows in upper-caste Hindu society.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195658442
• ISBN13: 9780195658446
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 8.8"