Introduction 1
Chapter one Wives in the Epics and in Tagore 18
Chapter Two Widows in the Epics and in Tagore 149
Chapter Three Women in Love in the Epics and in Tagore 194
Chapter Four Educated Woman Characters in the Epics and in Tagore 280
Chapter Five Tragic Women in the Epics and in Tagore 313
Conclusion 327
Bibliography 344