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The Conclusion addressees the question of the relevance of this study in the contemporary context: Do women still observe bratas? Are these kathās still in circulation? Does the arrival of the novel and later cinema and television reduce the mode of storytelling of the bratakathā to solemn but specious nonsense? Ironically, modern technology has also aided the propagation of caste-patriarchal stereotypes of women and generated new bratas. The laukika bratakathās of Manasā, Caṇḍī, Ṣaṣṭhī and Lakṣmī can also be used as a site from which the totalizing assumptions of caste-patriarchal societies may be challenged. |
