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Soft cover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Introduction/Molly Kaushal. Section I: Papers in English. I. Sacred Geography. 1. Archaeology of Ramkatha/B.M. Pande. 2. Sita worship: a social response to Ramkatha in the Garhwal Himalayas/D.P. Saklani. 3. Important locations (villages) and verbal narratives associated with princess Sita in the central hills of Sri Lanka/H.M.D.R. Herath. II. Narrative Traditions. 4. Theatre of khyna in Indian Tradition/Radhavallabh Tripathi. 5. Ramkatha alive in performance/Paula Richman. 6. Living Ramayanas of the Adivasis of Gujarat: a study/Nila Shah. 7. Rama legend in Assam: tangible and intangible manifestation/A.K. Das. 8. The Ramayana tradition in Manipur/R.K. Jhalajit Singh. 9. Elements of the Ramayana among the Khasis and the Jaintias/Sylvanus Lamare. 10. Retelling of Rama stories in Karnataka/H.S. Shivaprakash. 11. Ramayana in Southeast Asian traditional theatre performances: adaptation and localization/Ghulam-Sarwar Yousof. III. Performance Traditions. 12. Ramkatha in the Yakshagana tradition/P. Bilimale. 13. Ramkatha in oral narratives and folk performance of Orissa/Mahendra Kumar Mishra. 14. Ramkatha in Performance in Garhwal Himalaya/D.R. Purohit and Roma Purohit. 15. Ramayana in Balinese performance/I. Nyoman Sedana. 16. The Reamker revisited: Akaeng Khameaso in Sophiline Cheam Shapiro's choreography/San Phalla. 17. Being Rama: performing Rama in the changing times/Urmimala Sarkar. IV. Pictorial Traditions. 18. In visible idiom: Transfigurements of the Ramayana in India/D. Venkat Rao. 19. Crisis in Ayodhya: A reading of one miniature painting from the Chamba Ramayana Folio/Alok Bhalla. 20. The Painter's Ramayana: Sahibdin's Paintings of Yuddha KÄÎa/Ratan Parimoo. 21. The Killing of Sindhu in the Painted Scrolls of Bengal/Mandakranta Bose. 22. Gond Ramayani: In Text and in Painting/Molly Kaushal. 23. Bringing Up Hanuman: Hanuman and the Changing Imagination of Childhood/Philip Lutgendorf. Section II: Papers in Hindi Transmission, mobility, adaptation and concrete expression of the Rama theme among different communities and regions in India and outside is the finest example of the power of the 'oral word' that transcends all boundaries, be they geographic, temporal, social or literary. It provides for plurality, diversity and continuity of the tradition transcending the rigid boundaries of the text to flow in multiple streams and directions meeting with tributaries and rivulets along the way. In order to explore, understand and comprehend this living and vibrant Rama tradition in Indian culture, the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, in 2008, convened an international conference Ramkatha: Ankan, Manchan aur Vaachan under its ongoing project, Living Traditions of Ramkatha and Mahabharata. The present volume consists of select papers presented in this conference along with others that were specially invited from eminent scholars in the field. The papers here range from textual to oral, performance and pictorial renderings of Rama theme both in traditional and contemporary contexts, covering a large geographic area and diverse communities. For example, Bhil Ram Sitama ni Varta, Kunkana Ramkatha, Gond Ramayani, Rama traditions among the Ramnamis of Chhattisgarh, Ramman of Garhwal, Bundeli Ramkatha, Mewati Ramkatha and Ramkatha traditions among the Khasis, to name a few. The volume also contains essays on traditional and modern presentations of Rama theme in Southeast Asia. The volume is broadly organised under four themes: sacred geography, narrative, performance, and pictorial traditions. However, several of them overlap and flow into one another. The book is further divided into two sections: the first contains papers in English and the second in Hindi. This book is a significant addition to the existing literature on Ramayana and Ramkatha traditions and of great value to scholars of Indian culture, folklorists, anthropologists and Indologists.…

Hardcover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. When the first three volumes of the Stories about the Partition of India were published over a decade ago, they were widely acknowledged as the most comprehensive collection of texts in English translations from the three countries of the subcontinent. Ever since then, the anthology has remained an invaluable resource for historical and literary studies trying to understand the politics of religious identities, colonial predatoriness, linguistic chauvinism, or the partitions of large states to resolve ethnic conflicts anywhere. The new edition of the collection enlarges the range of the anthology by adding a fourth volume which includes a large number of stories from Bengali and Sindhi that speak eloquently about the continuing sorrows of separatist and fundamentalist world-views which destroy old neighbourhoods, encourage despair and add to human misery. The additional volume should enable scholars to add fresh insights into the history of the partition as it affected two regions which have yet not become the subject of serious literary and archival research. The anthology is further enriched by including stories by many of the finest writers in Urdu, Punjabi and Hindi which have become available only recently in English translations. This volume has also made a special effort to include more stories by major women writers from different languages like Qurratulain Hyder, Khadija Mastur, Popati Hiranandani, Dalip Kaur Tiwana, Nisha Da Cunha, Rajee Seth, Farkhanda Lodhi and Syeda Farida Rahman.…