Gendering Dharma

Document Type

Book Review

Abstract

The Dying Lineage: The Crisis of Political Power in the Mahabharata is the seventh monograph by well-known feminist historian Uma Chakravarti. The main thesis of the work is that the centrality of caste as a part of social infrastructure in India is not sufficient and one needs to bring the issue of “sexual governance” to understand social life (p 5). It introduces two new conceptual categories—“claste” (caste-cum-class society) and “sexual governance.”

Publication Date

11-6-2025

Journal

Economic and Political Weekly

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