The essays investigate the images of women and femininity found in the traditions of the Marathi language region of India, Maharashtra, and how these images con

The essays investigate the images of women and femininity found in the traditions of the Marathi language region of India, Maharashtra, and how these images con

Explores the conditions of women's lives in the modern state and traditional region of Maharashtra.

This volume, a companion to Images of Women in Maharashtrian Literature and Religion (SUNY Press, 1996), approaches more closely the realities of women's lives.

As they seek to explore evolving and conflicting ideas of nationhood and modernity, India's writers have often chosen forests as the dramatic setting for storie