Woman's Ramayana

Mandakranta Bose is Professor Emerita at the University of British Columbia, Canada. She has published widely on the classical performing arts and literature of India, gender studies and Hinduism.Sarika Priyadarshini Bose is Lecturer in English at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Her research interests and publications include Victorian drama and theatre, children’s literature, gender studies and composition.

• 1. Introduction 2. Candrāvatī Rāmāyana Part 1 3. Candrāvatī Rāmāyana Part 2 4. Candrāvatī Rāmāyana Part 3 5. Appendix 1. Vālmīki Rāmāyana 6. Appendix 2. Krttivāsī Rāmāyana 7. Appendix 3. Narrative Parallels and Omissions 8. Appendix 4. Nayāncāñd Ghos's Candrāvatī 9. Appendix 5. Glossary

"This book is a useful contribution to world literature in the sense that it in a way brings to light a work that was mostly orally transmitted, and that too in a vernacular language, so that now the non-Bengali speaker has access to it. It can therefore be of interest to any Ramayana enthusiast, to scholars studying Bengali/Indian literature(s), and/or women’s writings, but also to the general public, because the whole book, including (if not especially) the translation, is accessible to the non-specialist as well."Suganya Anandakichenin, E´cole francaise d’Extreˆme-OrientThe Journal of Hindu Studies 2015;8:323–324