Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Books | 294.513 PAT (Browse shelf) | Available | 032210 |
294.512 BHA Unforgetting Chaitanya : Vaishnavism and cultures of devotion in colonial Bengal | 294.513 DUM Destiny of a king | 294.513 OFL Hindu myths : a sourcebook translated from the Sanskrit | 294.513 PAT Shikhandi and other tales they don't tell you | 294.513 RAD Myths and legends of India | 294.51303 DOW Classical dictionary of Hindu mythology and religion, geography, history and literature | 294.5175 BEN Logic in a popular form : essays on popular religion in Bengal |
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The author explains that queerness isn't only modern, Western, or sexual. Rather, by looking at the traditions of Hinduism, he finds many overlooked tales with queerness at their center, some over two thousand years old. There's Shikhandi, who became a man to satisfy her wife; Mahadeva, who became a woman to deliver her devotee's child; Chudala, who became a man to enlighten her husband Samavan, who became the wife of his male friend--and more.
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