Raja Nal and the Goddess: The North Indian Epic Dhola in Performance
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"... [T]ells a wonderful story, one much loved in northern India.... fills an important lacuna in the work on oral epic." --Lindsey Harlan Dhola is an oral epic performed primarily by lower-caste, usually illiterate, men in the Braj region of northern India. The story of Raja Nal, "a king who does not know he is a king," this vast epic portrays a world of complex social relationships involving changing and mistaken identities, goddesses, powerful...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0253217245
ISBN13:9780253217240
Release Date:November 2004
Publisher:Indiana University Press
Length:242 Pages
Weight:0.85 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.3" x 9.3"
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