{"product_id":"evil-in-the-mahabharata-9780199477746","title":"Evil in the Mahabharata","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Meena Arora Nayak\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford UP\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP\u003cbr\u003e • Subject: History\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Asia - South - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGood and evil, loyalty and treachery, faith and doubt, honour and ignominy---the Mahabharata has served as a primer for codes of conduct of generations of Hindus. Over time, the epic has also fascinated those who love a tale well told. In its telling, however, the story has lost much of its richness and nuance, and the characters have become one-dimenssional cut-outs---either starkly good or irredeemably evil. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this reinterpretation, Meena Arora nayak analyses how the values espoused in the Mahabharata came to be distorted into meagre archetypes, creating customary laws that injure society even today.","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45102191575191,"sku":"9780199477746","price":1047.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780199477746.webp?v=1769206141","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/evil-in-the-mahabharata-9780199477746","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}