[Reader-list] Unravelling the Divine: Re writing the Ramayana

[Imran Ali Khan]

*Unravelling the Divine: Re-writing Rama *

The Ramayana of Valmiki is considered by many contemporary Hindus to be a
foundational religious text. But this understanding is in part the result
of a transformation of the epic’s receptive history, a hermeneutic project
which challenged one characterization of the genre of the text, as a work
of literary culture, and replaced it with another, as a work of remembered
tradition.

In the Ramayana commentaries, poetic retellings, and praise-poems produced
from 1250 to 1600, intellectuals within the Srivaisnava order of South
India in particular re conceptualized Rama’s story through the lens of
their devotional metaphysics.


*Ajay Rao is Assistant Professor of South Asian Religions at the University
of  Toronto.*



*Join us for a coffee and a conversation with Ajay Rao on 9 November, 2012
at 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm at Open Space ( B-301, Kanchanjunga Building, Kanchan
Lane, Off Law, College Rd, Pune 411004, Phone no:020-25457371)*

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Imran Ali Khan
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