Mandakranta Bose is Emeritus Professor and Director of the Centre
for India and South Asia Research at the University of British Columbia,
Vancouver. A Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and also of
the Royal Society of Canada, Dr Bose holds a BA and MA in Sanskrit from
Calcutta University, a second MA in Comparative Literature from the University
of British Columbia, and the MLitt and DPhil degrees in Oriental Studies from
Oxford. Her research over the past fifty plus years covers four main areas:
Sanskrit treatises on the performing arts, the Ramayana, Hindu dharmasastras and religious culture, and gender representation in the arts and literatures of India.
