[PDF.22qu] Escaping the World: Women Renouncers among Jains (South Asian History and Culture)

Escaping the World: Women Renouncers among Jains (South Asian History and Culture)

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 | #6110042 in Books |  2012-01-26 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.50 x5.75 x1.00l,.97 | File type: PDF | 266 pages

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||About the Author||Manisha Sethi is Assistant Professor at the Centre for the Study of Comparative Religions and Civilizations, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.

The book attends to a historical question ― how to account for the high numbers of renouncers (sadhvis) mentioned in medieval and ancient texts ― which has been acknowledged and raised, but left unaddressed within Jain studies. It does so through ethnographic data gathered through extensive fieldwork among the sadhvis in Delhi and Jaipur.

The volume foregrounds the primacy of ‘choice’ and ‘agency’― upheld by the n...

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