This book offers a detailed ethnography of traditional, predominantly upper-caste, sequestered Hindu women in the south-eastern Indian temple town of Bhubaneswar. Offering a clear portrait of these women, it interprets, rather than translates, their lives.

This book offers a detailed ethnography of traditional, predominantly upper-caste, sequestered Hindu women in the south-eastern Indian temple town of Bhubaneswar. Offering a clear portrait of these women, it interprets, rather than translates, their lives.

This book offers a detailed ethnography of traditional, predominantly upper-caste, sequestered Hindu women in the south-eastern Indian temple town of Bhubaneswar. Offering a clear portrait of these women, it interprets, rather than translates, their lives.