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CONTRIBUTORS Bina Agarwal Vidyut Aklujkar Edward C. Dimock Rich Freeman Robert P. Goldman Sally J. Sutherland Goldman Linda Hess John Kelly Madhu Kishwar Philip Lutgendorf Vasudha Narayana Usha Nilsson Velcheru Narayana Rao Paula Richman David Shulman Tony K. Stewart Romila Thapar

About the Author

Paula Richman is Irvin E. Houck Professor in the Humanities, Department of Religion, at Oberlin College. She is the editor of Extraordinary Child: Poems from a South Indian Devotional Genre (1997) and Many Ramayanas: The Diversity of a Narrative Tradition in South Asia (California, 1991).