Presenting the Past Anxious History and Ancient Future in Hindutva India
48 "Presenting" the Past their knowledge about and attitudes toward life." Geertz argues that every form of human behavior invol ...
Ramayana: Historicizing Myth and Mythologizing History 49 No one less than Mahatma Gandhi himself, who made a powerful use of th ...
50 "Presenting" the Past The Hindutva forces' invocation of Ram and Ramayana along the lines of Eurocentric taxonomies such as n ...
Ramayana: Historicizing Myth and Mythologizing History 51 his brothers, Lakshmana, insisted on going along with Rama despite his ...
52 "Presenting" the Past ground even after the death of his son and another loyal brother. Inevita- bly Rama and Ravana came fac ...
Ramayana: Historicizing Myth and Mythologizing History 53 The story or the structure and sequence of events may be the same, "bu ...
54 "Presenting" the Past enters the abode of Vishnu (a Hindu god) in his Vishnu-form along with his brothers, and the commoners ...
Ramayana: Historicizing Myth and Mythologizing History 55 of them, Kaikeyi, perfidiously persuaded him to send his eldest son in ...
56 "Presenting" the Past Kavya of Michael Madhusudan Dutt. Sympathizing with Ravana and the rakshasas, this Bengali story sings ...
Ramayana: Historicizing Myth and Mythologizing History 57 ally pertinent and/or nationalistic events: the eruption of the Afghan ...
58 "Presenting" the Past communal path with the Ramayan, the Hindu communal groups were not just licking their electoral wounds ...
Ramayana: Historicizing Myth and Mythologizing History 59 Hero No. 1. And many Muslims have been drawn to the "Leela" (playfulne ...
(^60) "Presenting" the Past fled in their resolve to uphold their noble family traditions." Besides other things, the "urgent ne ...
Ramayana: Historicizing Myth and Mythologizing History 61 confidence to display arms in their Shobha Yatra on Ramnavami day (Apr ...
62 "Presenting" the Past "we have many friends in the BJP which is a well wisher of Hindus," and second, the party was formed by ...
Ramayana: Historicizing Myth and Mythologizing History 63 the public consciousness to a different level of thinking. The Rama Ja ...
64 "Presenting" the Past The collapse of "Congress socialism" came to be replaced by Hindu chauvinism that, disguised as nationa ...
Ramayana: Historicizing Myth and Mythologizing History 65 was an amalgamation of all the major Ramayanas, and the new laundered ...
66 "Presenting" the Past of bedecked and bejewelled women."^64 Contrary to the religious values of simplicity, renunciation of m ...
Ramayana: Historicizing Myth and Mythologizing History 67 (Dasaratha, Rama), wisdom (Vashista), spiritual power (Vishwamitra, Ra ...
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