Winged Stallions and Wicked Mares

Horses in Indian Myth and History

By:

Wendy Doniger

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Hardback

Series:

Richard Lectures

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Horses are not indigenous to India. They had to be imported, making them expensive and elite animals. How then did Indian villagers who could not afford horses and often had never even seen a horse create such wonderful horse stories and brilliant visual images of horses? In Winged Stallions and Wicked Mares, Wendy Doniger, called ""the greatest living mythologist,"" examines the horse's significance throughout Indian history from the arrival of the Indo-Europeans, followed by the people who became the Mughals (who imported Arabian horses) and the British (who imported thoroughbreds and Walers).Â Along the way, we encounter the tensions between Hindu stallion and Arab mare traditions, the imposition of European standards on Indian breeds, the reasons why men ride mares to weddings, the motivations for murdering Dalits who ride horses, and the enduring myth of foreign horses who emerge from the ocean to fertilize native mares.

Author Biography:

Wendy Doniger is Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor Emerita of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago and author of more than forty books, including The Hindus: An Alternative History.

Release date NZ

April 30th, 2021

Author

Wendy Doniger

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

25 colour illustrations, 16 b&w illustrations

Pages

300

Series

Richard Lectures

ISBN-13

9780813945750

Product ID

34022163

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