Weightman's admirable phrase, "a religious event" and as a living-hence necessarily changing and evolving-presence in North Indian society, this study will also be concerned with the historical development of the performance genres that it treats. Since its underlying approach will be to treat the Ramcaritmanas as, in S. Approaching the text from the perspective of its performance, it will suggest that, in the audience's experience, the two are essentially inseparable. The present study, which grew out of one reader's encounter with the text and increasing curiosity about its living performers, seeks to fill this lacuna by investigating a wide spectrum of performance genres that utilize the epic, including traditions of public and private recitation, folksinging and formal exposition, as well as the more familiar Ramlila pageants. Indeed, it seems ironic that a text so often cited as a popular and living tradition has received so little study as such, apart from a handful of treatments of Ramlila folk dramas, the most obviously "theatrical" genre of Ramcaritmanas performance. Beyond that, a student interested in the popularity and impact of this remarkable work has had to be content with a literature consisting primarily of textual studies that, despite their undoubted contributions to an understanding of the origin, structure, and meaning of the epic, shed little light on its interaction with its audience-an interaction that has never been primarily through the medium of the written word. Such remarkable notices may arouse one's curiosity, first of all, to read the text-although here the English-language reader may be daunted by the fact that (for reasons to be discussed below) Tulsidas's great epic fares rather badly in translation. E.g., Macfie, The Ramayan of Tulsidas the second phrase comes from Growse, The Ramayana of Tulasidasa, xxxviii. Prasad, in his introduction to the revised edition of Growse, The Ramayana of Tulasidasa, v the second is from Smith, Akbar, The Great Mogul, 417 the third is from Gandhi, An Autobiography, 47. For an explanation of the numbering system, see below, p.
Numbers refer to the popular Gita Press version edited by Hanuman Prasad Poddar. All translations from the Ramcaritmanas are mine except where otherwise indicated. This sixteenth-century retelling of the legend of Ram by the poet Tulsidas has been hailed "not merely as the greatest modern Indian epic, but as something like a living sum of Indian culture," singled out as "the tallest tree in the magic garden of medieval Hindu poesy," and acclaimed (by the father of Indian independence, Mahatma Gandhi) as "the greatest book of all devotional literature." Western observers have christened it "the Bible of Northern India" and have called it "the best and most trustworthy guide to the popular living faith of its people." Anyone interested in the religion and culture of Northern India sooner or later encounters a reference to the epic poem Ramcaritmanas and its remarkable popularity. The band released an unique album in 1971, largely made of extravagant, colourful, tastefull hybrid rockin' compositions with discreet influences from Van Der Graaf Generator.ģ) Czech alternative rock band from Ústí nad Labem. Rüdiger Uhlig will join the legendary heavy progressive rock band Murphy Blend. In 1972 the band will change the name to Lied des Teufels.
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