"In this engaging and fascinating book, Lavanya Vemsani sheds light on many important female characters in the Mahabharata , including some who have not received adequate attention from earlier scholarship. In so doing, she makes a substantial contribution to our collective understanding of the Mahabharata and the ancient Indian social context from which it has emerged." (Jeffery D. Long, Carl W. Zeigler Professor of Religious Studies, Elizabethtown College, USA) "This book is something that has been crying out to be done, but that no-one before this author has thought seriously of doing. Feminine Journeys of the Mahabharata is a most valuable and original contribution to scholarship based on Hindu categories. It contributes to new understandings. It makes important "corrections" to well-established views and gives a critical account of the topic.

It restores complexity to a subject that indeed is at times badly over-simplified. It also sets a new parameter to examine feminine from devoid of gendered perspective." (Sushil Mittal, Professor of Hindu Studies and Gandhi Studies, James Madison University, USA) " Feminine Journeys of the Mahabharata is the most useful and interesting book on the Mahabharata, the longest epic of the world. This book makes an original contribution to historical understanding of the feminine in the Hindu culture through in-depth analysis of numerous early narratives of feminine divine and feminine heroic. This book is essential for anyone interested in the history of women as well as social and Cultural history of India." (Mamidala Jagadesh Kumar, Vice-Chancellor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India).