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Title: The Laws of Manu (Penguin Classics) by Manu, Wendy Doniger, Emile Zola, Brian K. Smith ISBN: 0-14-044540-4 Publisher: Penguin India Pub. Date: 01 January, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.67 (6 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: In the tradition of Colonial Ethnography
Comment: It is arguable that Manu Smriti is a text that is as important as it is claimed by this author. The Manu Smriti is virtually unknown in Southern India (Traditional Vedic Hinduism survived virtually intact here) and definitely not considered an integral part of Vedic Learning. The claim that Manu Smriti defines Hindu Moral law is absurd since each region and sect of Hindus have their own Smritis and traditions. The true moral code accepted by all Hindus is in the Mahabharata, the Bhagavad Gita and the Ramayana.
An earlier reviewer above seems to be under the impression that Women were "purposefully left uneducated" in India - this is a simple case of absolute ignorance of Indian history and total acceptance of the British Colonialist misrepresentation. This book is truly in the tradition of condescending colonial interpretation of Indian history and society which denies India a history, it's people a consciousness and projects the entire history of India through the narrow prism of Colonial and Jesuit misrepresentation. These Indologists have done enough damage to India in colonial times by projecting literature that suited their purposes as the soul of India. It is sad that this tradition survives to this day.
Rating: 5
Summary: Authoritative translation
Comment: Wendy Doniger is the doyenne of Indology today, and her translations of, and commentaries on, ancient Hindu texts testify to this. This translation is lucid and, given its subject matter, timely, displaying as it does both poetry and a variety of chauvinism that, sadly, Hindutva demagogues like to glorify (as some of the reviewers here are attempting to do).
Rating: 4
Summary: Irony of all Ironies!
Comment: What an irony it is that a woman has translated the Law of Manu, one of history's most oppressively patriarchal works. In this religious system, women were forbidden to study the Vedas, and were purposely left uneducated, until Hanna Marshmann began girls' schools in Bengal in the early 1800s.
Had the original writers of the Law of Manu known that one day a woman would translate it, they would have had strokes and fits.
By translating this work, Doniger has, in a way, subverted patriarchy. Below is just one of many female-bashing texts in the Law of Manu (taken from an earlier translation):
9: 17. When creating them, Manu allotted to women a love of their bed, of their seat and of ornament, impure desires, wrath,
dishonesty, malice, and bad conduct.
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Title: The Rig Veda: An Anthology : One Hundred and Eight Hymns, Selected, Translated and Annotated by Wendy Doniger, Thomas Wyatt, Wendy O'Flaherty ISBN: 0140444025 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1982 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Upanisads by Patrick Olivelle ISBN: 0192835769 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Kamasutra by Vatsyayana Mallanaga, Wendy Doniger, Sudhir Kakar ISBN: 0192839829 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Mahabharata by C. V. Narasimhan, Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan, Columbia College ISBN: 0231110553 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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Title: An Introduction to Hinduism by Gavin D. Flood, Gavin Flood ISBN: 0521438780 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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