Ramkatha in Narrative, Performance and Pictorial Traditions

Contents Keynote Address v Introduction xiii Contributors xxxi Section I: Papers in English I.SACRED GEOGRAPHY 1 Archaelogy of Ramkatha 1 2 Sita Worship: A Social Response to Ramkatha in the Garhwal Himalayas 7 3 Important Locations (Villages ) and Verbal Narratives 20 II. NARRATIVE TRADITIONS 4 Theatre of Akhyana in Indian Tradition 26 5 Ramkatha Alive in Performance 31 6 Living Ramayanas of the Adivasis of Gujarat: A Study 46 7 Rama Legend in Assam: Tangible and Intangible Manifestation 55 8 The Ramayana Tradition in Manipur 63 9 Elements of the Ramayana among the Khasis and the Jaintias 70 10 Retelling of Rama Stories in Karnataka 78 11 Ramayain Southeast Asian Traditional Theatre Performances: Adaptation and Localization 85 III.PERFORMANCE TRADITIONS 12 Ramkatha in the Yakshagana Tradition 97 13 Ramkatha in Oral Narratives and Folk Performance 106 14 Ramkatha in Performance in Garhwal Himalaya 116 15 Ramkatha in Balinese Performance 132 16 The Reamker Revisited: Akaeng Khameaso in Sophiline Cheam Shapiro's Choreography 151 17 Being Rama: Performing Rama in the Changing Times 160 PICTORIAL TRADITIONS 18 In Visible Idiom: Transfigurements of the Ramayana in India 166 19 Crisis in Ayodhya: A Reading of One Miniature Painting from the Chamba Ramayana Folio 196 20 The Painter's Ramayana: Sahibdin's Paintings of Yuddha Kanda 218 21 The killing of Sindhu in the Painted Scrolls of Bengal 235 22 Gond Ramayani: In Text and in Painting 242 23 Bringing up Hanuman: Hanuman and the Changing Imagination of Childhood 251 24 रामायण सार्वभोम और स्थानिक 263 25 रोम सीतमानी वार्ता का मौखिक पाठ सामाजिक जीवन के संदर्भ में 268 26 मेवाड़ का रासदारी ख्याल 279 27 मेवात जोगियों की रामकथा . लंका चढ़ाई 285 28 गोंड रामायणी में रामकथा के रूप 299 29 छतीशगढ लोक . गीता में रामकथा 307 30 रामनामी पंथ और रमरमिहा 319 31 बुंदेली रामकथा 327 32 हिमाचल प्रदेश की रामकथाओं में लोक . तत्व का समावेश 337