Strong Arms and Drinking Strength: Masculinity, Violence, and the Body in Ancient India

Oup Usa (2011)
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Abstract

Jarrod Whitaker examines the ritualized poetic construction of male identity in the Rigveda, India's oldest Sanskrit text, arguing that an important aspect of early Vedic life involves the sustained promotion and embodiment of what it means to be a true man

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