PDF Trees of Inspiration: Sacred Trees and Bushes of Ireland by Christine Zucchelli in History

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This text discusses the Hindu ideas and traditions that have shaped dominant conceptions of Indian women and the nation as a whole. It examines how these traditions are being subverted or transformed by fundamentalist forms of Hinduism. The concepts of Indian "womanhood"; "domesticity"; "wifeliness"; "mothering"; and India as a Hindu nation are examined through the literary and social traditions; popular culture and rhetoric; which have shaped the reality of modern India. This book is a critique of many of the dominating concepts by which some Indians live today.