Vijay NathVijay Nath, retired as an Associate Professor, Department of History, Jankidevi Memorial College, University of Delhi. She is the author of three books, Dana: Gift-system in Ancient India; Puranas and Acculturation: A Historical Anthropological Perspective and The Puranic World: Environment, Gender, Ritual and Myth and has contributed papers dealing with ancient Indian social and ritual formations in leading journals and anthologies. She was the sectional president of the Indian History Congress held in Calcutta, 2001. Read More Read Less