Horses are not indigenous to India. They had to be imported, making
them expensive and elite animals. How then did Indian villagers who
could not afford horses and often had never even seen a horse
create such wonderful horse stories and brilliant visual images of
horses? In Winged Stallions and Wicked Mares, Wendy Doniger, called
""the greatest living mythologist,"" examines the horse's
significance throughout Indian history from the arrival of the
Indo-Europeans, followed by the people who became the Mughals (who
imported Arabian horses) and the British (who imported
thoroughbreds and Walers).A Along the way, we encounter the
tensions between Hindu stallion and Arab mare traditions, the
imposition of European standards on Indian breeds, the reasons why
men ride mares to weddings, the motivations for murdering Dalits
who ride horses, and the enduring myth of foreign horses who emerge
from the ocean to fertilize native mares.
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