PA357 - Women in Hinduism & Buddhism

User icon Yoomna Rahim
8 April 2024
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Resources for: An exploration of constructions of gender and the status of women in Hinduism and Buddhism, with primary focus on normative developments in ancient and medieval India and the impact of this formative history on the lives of contemporary women. Readings from primary and secondary materials, with attention to both ideology and practice.


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 January 2014 English

Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar (1891-1956), or Babasaheb Ambedkar, was a scholar, social reformer, powerful advocate of the rights of Dalits and women, chairman of the Constituent Assembly of India, and the …


The Digital Public Library of America amplifies the value of libraries and cultural organizations as Americans’ most trusted sources of shared knowledge. We do this by collaborating with partners to …


Lal Chand and Sons · 1929 English

The spell of the unchanging East may be inimical to material progress but it furnishes a ready material for the exercise of the imagination the reconstruction of a scene and …



Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd. · 1921 English

2. Origin and Growth of Hinduism The earliest product of Indian literature the Rig Veda contains the songs of the Aryan invaders who were beginning 1 Probably the Christian doctrine …


Ministry of Culture · 1 January 1930 English

Women under Primitive Buddhism- Laywomen and Almswomen was written by I.B.Horner and published in the year 1930. Part one of the book deals with laywomen and part is about the …


Macmillan & Co. Ltd. · 1919 English

The condition of South Indian Hinduism at the end of the eighteenth century is very vividly reflected in l'Abbe Dubois' famous work and the Hinduism of the North at the …


Christian Literature Society · 1895 English

Muir referring to one of the hymn writers says " The general opinion of him poet's contemporaries in regard to the female sex appears to be intimated in the following …