Research Catalog

Title

Winged stallions & wicked mares : horses in Indian myth and history / Wendy Doniger ; illustrations curated by Anna Lise Seastrand.

Author

Doniger, Wendy

Publication

• Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2021.
• ©2021

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Details

Additional Authors

Seastrand, Anna Lise, 1980-

Description

xviii, 275 pages : illustrations (some color), map; 24 cm.

Summary

"Explores the horse in Indian mythology and history. Despite the fact that horses were imported to India and associated with foreigners and conquerors, Indian villagers created wonderful stories and brilliant visual images of horses. The author relates how Turkish horses, tribal horses, Dalit horses, Hindu stallions, and Arab mares all mix in streams of story that raise issues about the assimilation of foreign cultures in India"--

Series Statement

Richard lectures ; for 1997

Uniform Title

Richard lectures ; 1997.

Alternative Title

Winged stallions and wicked mares

Subject

• Winged horses
• Horses > Religious aspects > Hinduism
• Mares > Religious aspects > Hinduism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Horses in Indian Nature and Culture -- 1. The Presence of Horses in the Indo-European World and the Absence of Horses in the Indus Valley Civilization, 3000 to 5100 BCE -- 2. Horses in the Vedas, 1500 to 500 BCE -- 3. Horses and Snakes in the Underworld in the Mahabharata and Ramayana, 300 BCE to 300 CE -- 4. Horses in the Ocean in the Sanskrit Puranas, 400 to 1400 CE -- 5. Ashvashastra, the Science of Horses, 200 BCE to 1200 CE -- 6. Buddhist Horses, 500 BCE to 500 CE -- 7. Arabian Horses and Muslim Horsemen, 500 to 1800 CE -- 8. Equestrian Epics and Mythic Mares, 600 to 2000 CE -- 9. Horses of the British Raj, 1700 to 1900 CE -- 10. Horse Myths and Rituals in the Absence of Horses, 1800 to 2000 CE -- 11. Horses in Modern India, 1900 to 2020 CE -- Conclusion: The Gift Horse -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Call Number

JFE 21-3027

ISBN

• 9780813945750
• 0813945755

LCCN

2020037878

OCLC

1191456713

Author

Doniger, Wendy, author.

Title

Winged stallions & wicked mares : horses in Indian myth and history / Wendy Doniger ; illustrations curated by Anna Lise Seastrand.

Publisher

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2021.

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Richard lectures ; for 1997

Richard lectures ; 1997.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Seastrand, Anna Lise, 1980- other.

Other Form:

Online version: Doniger, Wendy, Winged stallions and wicked mares Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2021. 9780813945767 (DLC) 2020037879

Research Call Number

JFE 21-3027