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245 0 _aPlaying for real : hindu role models, religion, and gender/
_cedited by Jacqueline Suthren Hirst and Lynn Thomas
260 _aNew Delhi:
_bOxford University Press,
_c2004.
300 _axii, 190 p. :
_bill. ;
_c23 cm.
505 _aIntroduction: Playing for real: 'Hindu' role models, religion, and gender / Jacqueline Suthren Hirst and Lynn Thomas -- Role, role model, and function: the Sanskrit epic warrior in comparison and theory / Alf Hiltebeitel -- Digits from the Dada: pointers to the articulation of Sainik role models in Mumbai / Raminder Kaur -- Childhood and schooling in an Indian village / Padma Sarangapani -- Confrontation, transgression, and submission: ideals of womanhood in the Manasāmaṅgala / Mandakranta Bose -- Is love still stronger than dharma? Whatever happened to Sita's choice and the gopīs' voice? / Heidi Pauwels -- Pregnancy rituals amongst the Rajput elite in contemporary Rajasthan: anthropology and the world of women / Marzia Balzani -- Subverting the fierce goddess: Phoolan Devi and the politics of vengeance / Sarah Caldwell.
650 _aManners and customs
650 _aRole models
650 _aHindu mythology
650 _aHinduism--Influence
700 _aHirst, Jacqueline Suthren, ed.
700 _aThomas, Lynn, ed.
942 _cWB16