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Damayanti and Nala: The Many Lives of a Story
Susan S. Wadley (Ed.)
Price
750.00
ISBN
9788180280375
Language
English
Pages
352
Format
Hardback
Dimensions
140 x 216 mm
Year of Publishing
2011
Territorial Rights
World
Imprint
D C Publishers

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This volume of essays with papers by anthropologists, Sanskritists, scholars of religion, historians, literary scholars and folklorists, explores the many ‘tellings’ of the story of Damayanti and Nala, giving us new understandings of this well-known story.

Susan S. Wadley is Ford Maxwell Professor of South Asian Studies at Syracuse University. She is also Director of the South Asia Center and Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences.
  1. ‘Nala: The Life of a Story’ by Velcheru Narayana Rao and David Shulman
  2. ‘The Story of Nala’ by David Shulman and Velcheru Narayana Rao
  3. ‘An Indo-Persian Retelling of Nala and Damayanti’ by Muzaffar Alam and Sanjay Subrahmanyam
  4. ‘Nal and Damayanti’s Reversals of Fortune: Perspectives on When a Woman Should Know Better’ by Lindsey Harlan
  5. ‘Damayanti’s String: Epic Threads in Women’s Ritual Stories’ by Ann Grodzins Gold
  6. ‘Pandvani Heroines, Chhattisgarhi Daughters’ by Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger
  7. ‘Raja Nal’s Purana and the Jat Kingdoms of Braj’ by Susan S. Wadley
  8. ‘The Performative Context of Nala in Late Medieval Kerala’ by Rich Freeman
  9. ‘Nala’s Weakness and Damayanti’s Powers: Jain Tellings of the Great Love Story’ by M. Whitney Kelting
  10. ‘Leaving Damayanti Again (and Again): Jain Retellings of the Nala Story’ by Phyllis Granoff
  11. ‘Nala Unhinged: Pukalentippulavar’s Nalavenpa’ by David Shulman
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