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
 collapse sectionFour  The Art of Manas-Katha
 •The Economics of Katha
 expand sectionQualifications of a Performer
 expand sectionPerformance Structure and Techniques
 expand sectionKatha in Context: The Contemporary Performance Milieu
 expand sectionThe Performer and the Text
 •The Nature of Katha: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
 •The Palace of Mirrors
 expand sectionFive  Words Made Flesh: The Text Enacted
 expand sectionSix  The Text in a Changing Society

  Glossary of Names with Transliteration
 expand sectionBibliography
 expand sectionIndex
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