Yuganta: The End of an Epoch
Yuganta: The End of an Epoch
by Irawati Karve
AdultsIndian author
A landmark Sahitya Akademi-winning study by an anthropologist who reads the Mahabharata's characters as real, flawed people — Kunti, Draupadi, Karna, Krishna — stripped of divinity.
- Author
- Irawati Karve
- Age
- For grown-ups
- Type
- Mythology Retold, Essays, Non-fiction
- Language
- English (tr. from Marathi)
- Publisher
- Orient BlackSwan
- Readers rate it
- 4.16 / 5 on Goodreads
- In India
- Available
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