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
 collapse sectionThree  The Text Expounded: The Development of Manas-Katha
 •The Telling and Its Milieu
 •Epic and Puranic Exegetical Traditions
 expand sectionThe Manas-Katha Tradition
 •Changing Styles of Katha.
 expand sectionFour  The Art of Manas-Katha
 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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