The Life of a Text |
Acknowledgments |
A Note on Transliteration |
![]() | One The Text and the Research Context |
![]() | Two The Text in Recitation and Song |
![]() | Three The Text Expounded: The Development of Manas-Katha |
![]() | Four The Art of Manas-Katha |
![]() | Five Words Made Flesh: The Text Enacted |
![]() | Six The Text in a Changing Society |
![]() | The Paradoxical Paradigm |
• | The Rise of the Eternal Religion |
![]() | The Politics of Ramraj |
![]() | Cracks in the Mirror |
![]() | People of the Book |
• | Rush-Hour Revival |
• | You've Read the Book . . . Now Buy the Cassette |
• | . . . And Watch the Video |
• | Banking on the Name |
• | Avadhi, Khari Boli, and "Hindi-Ization" |
• | The New Patrons |
• | The Future of Manas Performance |
Glossary of Names with Transliteration |
![]() | Bibliography |
![]() | Index |