The Rāmāyaṇa revisited /

Table of Contents: “…Sutherland Goldman -- Rāmāyaṇa textual traditions in eastern India / William L. …”
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A woman's Rāmāyaṇa. : Candrāvatī's Bengali epic / by Candrāvatī, active 16th century

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- 2. Candrāvatī Rāmāyana : part 1 -- 3. Candrāvatī Rāmāyana : part 2 -- 4. …”
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Vālmīkis Rāmāyaṇa, das Leben Rāmas. Buch I, Kindheit und Jugend. by Vālmīki

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Ramayana stories in modern South India : an anthology /

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Traces of the Ramayana and Mahabharata in Javanese and Malay Literature /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Willem van der Molen -- 2. The Rāmāyaṇa in Java and Bali : chapters from its literary history / Stuart Robson -- 3. …”
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A grammar of epic Sanskrit by Oberlies, Thomas

Subjects: “…Vālmīki. Rāmāyaṇa.…”
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Opera Jawa

Subjects: “…Râmâyaṇa (Old Javanese kakawin) Film adaptations.…”
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Argument and design : the unity of the Mahābhārata

Table of Contents: “…2 On the Upatva of Upākhyā­nas: Is the Uttarakāṇḍa of the Rāmāyaṇa an Upākhyā­na of the Ma­hāb­hā­ra­ta? /…”
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The past before us : historical traditions of early north India by Thapar, Romila

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Hindu Hell : Visions, Tours and Descriptions of the Infernal Otherworld from Hell-on-Line. org. by Gardiner, Eileen

Table of Contents: “…The Mahabharata7; 4. The Ramayana8; 5. The Markandeya Purana9; 6. The Vamana Purana10; 7. …”
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Epic inspiration.

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Bollywood in the age of new media : the geo-televisual aesthetic by Basu, Anustup

Table of Contents: “…Cinematic "assemblages": the 1990s and earlier -- The geo-televisual and Hindi film in the age of information -- Allegories of power/information -- The music of intolerable love: Indian film music -- Technopolis and the Ramayana: new temporalities -- Repetitions with difference: Mother India and her thousand sons.…”
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Bollywood in the age of new media : the geo-televisual aesthetic by Basu, Anustup

Table of Contents: “…Cinematic "assemblages": the 1990s and earlier -- The geo-televisual and Hindi film in the age of information -- Allegories of power/information -- The music of intolerable love: Indian film music -- Technopolis and the Ramayana: new temporalities -- Repetitions with difference: Mother India and her thousand sons.…”
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The Hindu World.

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Title -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Note on transliteration -- Contributors -- Bhūmikā -- PART I: INTRODUCING THE HINDU WORLD -- 1 On Hinduism and Hinduisms: The way of the banyan -- PART II: ORAL TEACHINGS AND TEXTUAL TRADITIONS -- 2 Veda and Upanisad -- 3 Mahābhārata -- 4 Rāmāyana -- 5 Purāna -- PART III: THEISTIC AND DEVOTIONAL MOVEMENTS -- 6 Śaiva -- 7 Śākta -- 8 Vaisnava -- 9 Bhakti -- PART IV: COSMIC ORDER AND HUMAN GOALS -- 10 Dharma -- 11 Artha -- 12 Kāma -- 13 Moksa -- PART V: SOCIAL ACTION AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE -- 14 Karma -- 15 Samskāra -- 16 Varna and Jāti -- 17 Āśrama -- PART VI: VITALITY IN PERSONS AND IN PLACES -- 18 Anna -- 19 Grāma -- 20 Ālaya -- 21 Tīrtha -- PART VII: LINGUISTIC AND PHILOSOPHIC ANALYSIS -- 22 Bhāsā -- 23 Darśana -- 24 Kāla -- References cited -- Index.…”
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Readings in Eastern Religions, Second Edition. by Coward, Harold G.

Table of Contents: “…The Shatapatha Brahmana -- Upanishads -- Legal Literature -- Laws of Manu -- Epics -- Bhagavad Gita -- Ramayana -- Devotional Literature -- Bhagavad Gita -- Ramayana -- The Goddess -- Indian Devotional Poet-Saints -- Manikkavachakar -- Appar -- Kabir -- Mirabai -- Hindu Ethics and Dharma -- Hindu Ethics and Dharmaâ€?…”
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The rise of Mahāsena : the transformation of Skanda-Karttikeya in North India from the Kuṣāṇa to Gupta empires by Mann, Richard D.

Table of Contents: “…Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Theories Related to the Origins of Skanda -- The Early Traditions of Skanda-Kārttikeya from Epic, Medical and Ritual Sources -- The Emergence of the Senāpati: The Narrative Conversion of the Warrior and Graha -- The Birth of Skanda-Kārttikeya in the Śalyaparvan, Anuśāsanaparvan and Rāmāyaṇa -- Coins, Statuary and Skanda-Kārttikeya: The Earliest Depictions -- Skanda-Kārttikeya on Kuṣāṇa Coinage and Gandhāra Statuary -- Developments in Skanda-Kārttikeya's Cult between the Empires -- The Kumārasaṃbhava and Purāṇic Accounts of Skanda-Kārttikeya -- The Material Culture of Skanda-Kārttikeya in the Gupta Empire -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- Plates.…”
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Materializing Southeast Asia's Past : Selected Papers from the 12th International Conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists. by Degroot, Véronique

Table of Contents: “…Part 4: Southeast Asia Between Past and PresentChapter 17: Funeral Scenes in the Rāmāyaṇa Mural Painting at the Emerald Buddha Temple; Chapter 18: Jars in the Central Highlands of Mainland Southeast Asia; Chapter 19: Pagoda Desecration and Myanmar Archaeology, 1853-86; Chapter 20: Fame and Fortune in Two Philippine Cemeteries:Tombstones as Extensions of Identity; About the Authors; Index; Untitled…”
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Music and society. A land of smiles : Thailand

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Shadows of empire : colonial discourse and Javanese tales by Sears, Laurie J. (Laurie Jo)

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Empire and poetic voice : cognitive and cultural studies of literary tradition and colonialism by Hogan, Patrick Colm

Table of Contents: “…Revising indigenous precursors, reimagining social ideals: Tagore's The home and the world and Vālmīki's Rāmāyaṇa -- 3. Subaltern myths drawn from the colonizer: Dream on monkey mountain and the revolutionary Jesus -- 4. …”
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Divali in Dow Village.

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Politics after Television : Hindu Nationalism and the Reshaping of the Public in India. by Rajagopal, Arvind

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The challenge of the silver screen : an analysis of the cinematic portraits of Jesus, Rama, Buddha and Muhammad by Bakker, Freek L., 1951-

Table of Contents: “…The films -- Historical background -- The importance of seeing in Hinduism -- The modern Ramayana Kathas -- Buddha. The films -- Historical background -- Resistance to depicting Buddha in film -- Thanks to the Hindus and the Westerners -- Muhammad. …”
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The JVC video anthology of world music and dance. Volume 11, South Asia I : India 1

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Extreme poetry : the South Asian movement of simultaneous narration by Bronner, Yigal

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Royal Ballet of Cambodia in performance

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Narrative and identity construction in the Pacific Islands

Table of Contents: “…"[P]ulling tomorrow's sky from [the] kete": Culture-specific narrative representations of re/mem -- Structure, characterisation strategies and character constellation -- Storytelling and the oral traditions -- Fight for the land and the voice of the earth -- References -- 12. Beyond exile: The Ramayana as a living narrative among Indo-Fijians in Fiji and New Zealand -- The Ramcaritmanas in Fiji: The text and its interpreters -- Fellowship with the Virtuous: Ramayana recital and ethnic identity -- Encountering the Indian "other": The Ramayan mandali in New Zealand -- Beyond exile: A living narrative -- References -- 13. …”
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The JVC video anthology of world music and dance. Volume 8, Southeast Asia III : Malaysia & Philippines

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Rethinking India's oral and classical epics : Draupadī among Rajputs, Muslims, and Dalits by Hiltebeitel, Alf

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Self and Self-transformation in the History of Religions. by Shulman, David Dean

Table of Contents: “…Transformations of Subjectivity and Memory in the Mahābhārata and the Rāmāyana; 5. Madness and Divinization in Early Christian Monasticism; II. …”
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The return of the epic film : genre, aesthetics and history in the twenty-first century

Table of Contents: “…6 Colour in the Epic Film: Alexander and Hero7 Defining the Epic: Medieval and Fantasy Epics; 8 Special Effects, Reality and the New Epic Film; Part III Epic Films and Challenging the Canon; 9 Pass the Ammunition: A Short Etymology of 'Blockbuster'; 10 Epic Stumbling Blocks; 11 The Greatest Epic of the Twenty-First Century?; 12 The Ramayana and Sita in Films and Popular Media: The Repositioning of a Globalised Version; Notes on the Contributors; Index.…”
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Classical Civilizations of South-East Asia. by Braginskiĭ, V. (Vladimir)

Table of Contents: “…Further light on Sir Richard Winstedt's 'undescribed Malay version of the Ramayana'; 15. Three old Achehnese manuscripts; 16. …”
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Critical Perspectives on Indo-Caribbean Women's Literature. by Mahabir, Joy

Table of Contents: “…9 Illicit Intimacies, the Ramayana and Synaesthetic Remembering in Shani Mootoo's Valmiki's Daughter10 Revising Female Indian Memory: Ramabai Espinet's Reconstruction of an Indo-Trinidadian Diaspora in The Swinging Bridge; List of Contributors; Index.…”
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Everyday Hinduism by Flueckiger, Joyce Burkhalter

Table of Contents: “…Ritual Families in Domestic Shrines -- References -- Recommended Readings -- Chapter 2 Oral and Visual Narratives and Theologies -- Oral Performance Genres -- Visual Narratives and Theologies -- Verbal and Visual Together -- Where Does the Narrative Lie? -- The Ramayana Tradition Performed -- References -- Recommended Readings -- Chapter 3 Loving and Serving God: Bhakti, Murtis, and Puja -- Bhakti, Devotion -- Singing to God and the Goddess -- Worshipping Deities in Material Form -- Narratives of God in the Murti -- The Deity without Form -- Modes of Worshipping the Murti -- The Services of Puja…”
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Visualizing secularism and religion : Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey, India

Table of Contents: “…Mirrors of Emancipation: Images of Sovereignty and Exile in the Balmiki Ramayana -- Usha Zacharias…”
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The cinema of sensations

Table of Contents: “…III Sensation of Time, Reality and Fantasy -- Affective Realism and the Brand New Brazilian Cinema / Ramayana Lira -- The New Realistic Trend in Contemporary World Cinema: Ramin Bahrani's Chop Shop as a Case Study / Fernando Canet.…”
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The message and the book : sacred texts of the world's religions by Bowker, John, 1935-

Table of Contents: “…Zarathustra: Gathas, Yasna, Avesta5 INDIA -- The Vedas -- Upanishads and Agamas -- Sutras: Badarayana's Vedanta Sutra, Patanjali's Yoga Sutra -- Dharmasutras and Dharmashastras: Manusmriti -- The Epics: Ramayana and Mahabharata -- Puranas: Bhagavata Purana -- The Song of the Lord: Bhagavadgita -- The Love of God: Gitagovinda -- The Love of God: Alvars and Nayanars -- Taritra: Shrividya -- The Gitas: Anugita, Ishvaragita and Devigita -- The Sants: Kabir -- 6 SIKHS -- Guru Nanak: Japji and Mul Mantra…”
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Addha-Nari : ou L'occultisme dans l'Inde antique by Bosc, Ernest, 1837-1913

Table of Contents: “…. -- Le Gita-Govinda; Gita-Govinda; Chapitre V -- Le Ramayana; Chapitre VI -- La Belle Mênaka. -- Çakuntala; Chapitre VII -- La légende de Çakuntala; Chapitre VIII -- La légende de Çakuntala; Chapitre IX -- Le Zend-Avesta.…”
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Popol Vuh : a retelling by Stavans, Ilan

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The self possessed : deity and spirit possession in South Asian literature and civilization by Smith, Frederick M.

Table of Contents: “…Friendly Acquisitions, Hostile Takeovers: The Panorama of Possession in the Sanskrit Epics; The Mahābhārata, Where Everything Can Be Found; Notes on Possession in the Rāmāyana; Chapter 7. Enlightenment and the Classical Culture of Possession; Possession as Yoga Practice; Possession and the Subtle Body in the Yogavāsiùha; Śaãkara's Possession of a Dead King; Possession and the Body in the Brahmasūtras; Possession in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism; Conclusions.…”
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