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BECAUSE IT GIVES ME PEACE OF MIND IBD

SUNY PRESS
07 / 1996
9780791430385
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Sinopsis

This is the first book-length study that explores the history and nature of vrats-votive fasting rites-the role these rites play in the religious lives of Hindu women in North India, and the meanings these women attribute to them. By placing vrats within