Kaul, Shonaleeka

Imagining the urban:sanskrit and the city in early India / Shonaleeka Kaul - Ranikhet : Permanent Black, 2010. - xi, 278 p. ill. ; 23 cm.

Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-274) and index.

1. The ambit of the city
2. Within the city
3. Urban characters and their world (masculine and feminine archetypes)
4. . Urban characters and their world (ascetic, brahman, king and the social order)
5. The urban experience
6. Symbolic values and the city
4.

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Sanskrit poetry--History and criticism.
Cities and towns in literature.


India--Social life and customs.

307.760954 / KAU/I