The study, The Language ofthe Gods in the World of Royal Ladies of Kerala. Toward a History of Women s Writing in Sanskrit in the 18th- to 20th-century Kerala, addresses the subject of Sanskrit culture in Kerala and women s participation in it. Each chapter, de-picting literary activities of poetesses belonging to different contexts, raises different questions. Each ofthe biographies included in the book brings new details concerningthe life of women-writers atthat time. Ań attempt is madę to reconstruct historical reality and materiał culture, the practices of writ-ing, daily routine of poetesses, objects surrounding them, etc,, in each case under discussion.
Lidia Sudyka is Professor in the Department of of Lan-guages and Cultures of India and South Asia at the Insti-tute of Oriental Studies, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland. She is one of the very few Polish specialists deal-ing with dass[cal Sanskrit literaturę (kavya), including in-digenous literary theory. In the scope of her interests arę also selected aspects ofthe contemporary and historical forms of textual transmission and persistence of literary cultures in India.
