The Ramayana Revisited.(Book review) From: The Journal of the American Oriental Society | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: Rocher, Ludo | COPYRIGHT 2006 American Oriental Society. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The Ramayana Revisited. Edited by MANDAKRANTA BOSE. Oxford: Oxford UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2004. Pp. xii + 378, illus.

Mandakranta Bose may be best known for her work on Indian dance and, more recently, on women's studies. However, the Ramayana, which "was for me a part of life I took for granted with no expenditure of conscious effort," has more recently become an object of a critical engagement as "a foundational text of South and Southeast Asian Societies" (p. vii). Her edi...