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In a short introduction to ‘Mahishasur: Mithak va Paramparayen’, Kanwal Bharti says three travelogues – Pramod Ranjan’s ‘Mahoba mein Mahishasur’, Nawal Kishore Kumar’s ‘Chhota Nagpur ke Asur’ and ‘Anil Varghese’s ‘Rajasthan se Karnatak via Maharashtra – Talaash Mahishasur ki’ – throw critical light on the topic. Forward Press will be publishing the English translation of the book soon

The main objective is to understand the changing social equations in villages, studying Bahujan-Shraman traditions and documents related to those historic social movements that the academia has overlooked