Rethinking India's Oral and Classical Epics

Throughout India and Southeast Asia, ancient classical epics—the Mahabharata and the Ramayana—continue to exert considerable cultural influence. Rethinking India''s Oral and Classical Epics offers an unprecedented exploration into South Asia''s regional epic traditions.

Using his own fieldwork as a starting point, Alf Hiltebeitel analyzes how the oral tradition of the south Indian cult of the god...