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Language: en
Pages: 337
Pages: 337
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-03 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Language: en
Pages: 368
Pages: 368
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-06-08 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 428
Pages: 428
Type: BOOK - Published: 1985 - Publisher: Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press
Among the 1,500 devotees of the Hindu temple and cult of Jagannatha at Puri are a handful of women known as "devadasis" or, literally, "female servants of the d
Language: en
Pages: 337
Pages: 337
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 192
Pages: 192
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Daya Books
Contributed papers presented in the Seminar; held to commemorate the memory of Grace Morley, the first director of National Museum, India. With reference to Sou