Books
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Faint promise of rain | Anjali Mitter Duva | "It is 1554 in the desert of Rajasthan, and a new Mughal emperor is expanding his territory. In a family of Hindu temple dancers a daughter, Adhira, must carry on her family's sacred tradition. Her f… | OL19992834W |
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Given to the Goddess | Lucinda Ramberg | Who and what are marriage and sex for? Whose practices and which ways of talking to god can count as religion? Lucinda Ramberg considers these questions based upon two years of ethnographic research … | OL20331090W |
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Devadasis | K. Jamanadas | On social conditions of Buddhist nuns and Devadāsīs with reference to India. | OL4258243W |