The Life of a Text
  Acknowledgments
  A Note on Transliteration

 expand sectionOne  The Text and the Research Context
 expand sectionTwo  The Text in Recitation and Song
 expand sectionThree  The Text Expounded: The Development of Manas-Katha
 expand sectionFour  The Art of Manas-Katha
 expand sectionFive  Words Made Flesh: The Text Enacted
 collapse sectionSix  The Text in a Changing Society
 expand sectionThe Paradoxical Paradigm
 •The Rise of the Eternal Religion
 expand sectionThe Politics of Ramraj
 expand sectionCracks in the Mirror
 expand sectionPeople of the Book
 •The Future of Manas Performance

  Glossary of Names with Transliteration
 expand sectionBibliography
 expand sectionIndex
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