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PHILIP LUTGENDORF teaches Hindi and Indian literature at the University of Iowa.
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Lutgendorf, P. Imagining Ayodhyā: Utopia and its shadows in a Hindu landscape. Hindu Studies 1, 19–54 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11407-997-0011-z
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