Wendy Doniger
✓ Source-basedfallingAmerican Indologist (born 1940)
Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty is an American Indologist whose professional career has spanned five decades.
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I myself am by both temperament and training inclined to texts.
In: The Hindus: An Alternative History, Oxford University Press, 30 September 2010, p. 35.
The two sets of sources, textual and nontextual, reveal bits of history to us in different ways, like the lame man riding on the shoulders of the blind man.
In: The Hindus: An Alternative History, p. 34.
There is generally, therefore, an inverse ratio between the worship of goddesses and the granting of rights to human women.
Wendy Doniger, Quoted in The Washington Post. Quoted in Antonio de Nicolas, Krishnan Ramaswamy, and Aditi Banerjee (eds.) (2007), Invading
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Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty is an American Indologist whose professional career has spanned five decades. A scholar of Sanskrit and Indian textual traditions, her major works include The Hindus: An Alternative History; Asceticism and Eroticism in the Mythology of Siva; Hindu Myths: A Sourcebook; The Origins of Evil in Hindu Mythology; Women, Androgynes, and Other Mythical Beasts; and The Rig Veda: An Anthology, 108 Hymns Translated from the Sanskrit.
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