Dear Dr Keller,

This valuable, freely available 2014 publication contains some hints about the religious and (implicitely at least) scholarly role of women in ancient and medieval (-Buddhist-) South Asia:

http://www.sati.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Sati-Journal-Volume-2.pdf

Kind regards,
E.Ciurtin
Institute for the History of Religions, Romanian Academy 


2014-08-19 14:44 GMT+03:00 Agathe Keller <kellera@univ-paris-diderot.fr>:
Dear colleagues,

I have been asked by a non indologist colleague for references on women scholars in ancient and medieval India. Do you know of an article or a book which would deal directly with this subject?

I have noted so far for him:

Witzel, Michael. 2009. Female Rishis and philosophers in the
Veda? Journal of South Asia Women Studies 11(1).
And

Mary McGee, Ritual Rights The Gender Implications of Adhikdra in L. Patton ed Jewels of Authority, OUP 2002. 32-50 (esp. p.42)

but this is very meager and vedic...

I can't help but feel that there is a very obvious reference that I must be lacking

thanking you in advance for your help,


Agathe

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