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Study of Gaya (Hindu pilgrimage center) in its religious and sociological aspects.

Epic love poems often share common thematic elements -love in union, love in separation, and love in reunion. This book investigates common threads and shared symbolism between the literary masterpieces The Story of Layla Majnun (written by Nizami in the Islamic Sufi tradition) and Gita Govinda (written by Jayadeva in the Hindu Bhaktic tradition). Book jacket.

A collective biography of full-time women faculty members in the hard sciences at the University of Madras. The ethnographic approach combines descriptions of the lives and careers of individual women in a male-dominated environment with analysis of the structures and organizational features that maintain them in a peripheral position. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR