Description

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Introduction
1. Rethinking Hinduism, Mythologizing, and Otherism
2. Revisiting Hindi Drama - Inventing Tradition
3. Hinduism, Nationalism and Varramadharma: Mythologizing and Othering theReligious Other
4. Hinduism and Gender: Mythologizing and Othering Women
Conclusion: A Hindu-Hindi Drama
Appendix. Summary of Dramas

About the Author

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Diana Dimitrova is Associate Professor of Hinduism and South Asian religions at the University of Montreal, Canada. She is the author of Western Tradition and Naturalistic Hindi Theatre (2004) and Gender, Religion and Modern Hindi Drama (2008). She is also the editor of Religion in Literature and Film in South Asia (2010) and The Other in South Asian Religion, Literature and Film: Perspectives on Otherism and Otherness (2014).