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Donors, Devotees, and Daughters of God: Temple Women in Medieval Tamilnadu (South Asia Research)

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This is a truly fabulous book about the possible history of temple women during the Chola period in South Indian. Ms. Orr has very thoroughly and comprehensivly examined and explained her sources and theories. I learned a great deal from this text and was gratified to see all of her assertions backed by epigraphical surveys or the well-documented work of other authors. My one critique would be that the work limits itself to only epigraphical evidence, and does not consider other sources, such as literature, before it draws firm conclusions. I don't think it a failing of the text so much as a gaping hole waiting to be filled.