An American Girl in India
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State University of New York Press, 2023.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Wendy Doniger., & Wendy Doniger|AUTHOR. (2023). An American Girl in India . State University of New York Press.

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Wendy Doniger and Wendy Doniger|AUTHOR. 2023. An American Girl in India. State University of New York Press.

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Wendy Doniger and Wendy Doniger|AUTHOR. An American Girl in India State University of New York Press, 2023.

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Wendy Doniger, and Wendy Doniger|AUTHOR. An American Girl in India State University of New York Press, 2023.

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The India she describes in her letters back home to her parents is young, like her, still finding its feet and learning to come to terms with the violence of Partition. But it is also a mature civilization that allows Vishnu to be depicted on the walls in a temple to Shiva, a culture of contradictions where extreme eroticism is tied to extreme chastity, and a land of the absurd where sociable station masters don't let train schedules stand in the way of hospitality. The country comes alive though her vivid prose, introspective and yet playful, and her excitement is on full display whether she is telling of the paradoxes of Indian life, the picturesque countryside, the peculiarities of Indian languages, or simply the mechanics of a temple ritual that she doesn't understand.

Those who have read and admired Wendy Doniger will be delighted to find much of her later work anticipated in these letters, and the few who haven't will get to see, through her keen eyes and able pen, India as they have never seen it before.
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