Winged stallions and wicked mares : horses in Indian myth and history
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Winged stallions and wicked mares : horses in Indian myth and history
（Richard lectures）
University of Virginia Press, 2021
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Winged stallions & wicked mares
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"Publication of this book was assisted by a grant from the Page-Barbour and Richard Lecture Fund"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-256) and index
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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).A 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.
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