Abstract
This essay explores contemporary novelizations of episodes from the Mahābhārata, India’s greatest epic narrative, as vehicles for critical reflection on the treatment of women and queer individuals in modern Indian law. It argues that some Mahābhārata ‘Epic’ fiction places modern Indian debates concerning social justice in a critical, homologous relationship to tales from the Mahābhārata in order to problematize the inequity of ancient and modern legal regimes. In doing so, the essay links law and literature, critical legal studies, Indian feminist and queer legal discourses, and Mahābhārata scholarship.
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