Wendy Doniger
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Wendy Doniger

Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor Chair in History of Religions

Wendy Doniger [O’Flaherty] is the author of over forty books, most recently The Hindus: An Alternative History [2010], the Indian edition of which prompted a lawsuit for blasphemy; Against Dharma: Dissent in the Ancient Indian Sciences of Sex and Politics [2018, retitled Beyond Dharma: . . . for the Indian edition]; and The Donigers of Great Neck: A Mythologized Memoir [2019]. In press is Winged Stallions and Wicked Mares: Horses in Indian Myth and History [April, 2021] and in progress, a translation of the last books of the Mahabharata and Letters from India, 1963-2018.

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