The Hindu Widow in Indian Literature

• Author(s): Rajul Sogani,
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Pages: 265
• ISBN_10: 0195658442
  ISBN_13: 9780195658446
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Family & Relationships / Death, Grief, Bereavement , Literary Criticism / Asian / Indic , Religion / Hinduism / General , Social Science / Women's Studies ,

Description:... This book examines novels about widowhood in eight Indian languages--Bengali, Gujerati, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi and Urdu--written in the last 150 years. In the process it uncovers the, often contradictory, attitudes towards widows in upper-caste Hindu society.