The Radheshyam Ramayan in Text and Performance
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 28 August 2025
- ISBN 9780198948896
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages242 pages
- Size 15x140x216 mm
- Weight 380 g
- Language English 641
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Short description:
Pandit Radheshyam Kathavachak, a 20th-century poet, reinterpreted the Ramayan into the 'Radheshyam Ramayan', blending Tulsidas's classic with the socio-political milieu of Gandhi's era. His work became pivotal to Ramlila shows in north India, showcasing his stature as a celebrated Vaishnav poet-singer.
MoreLong description:
A new Ramayan for a new age. In the early twentieth century, the poet and singer-storyteller Pandit Radheshyam Kathavachak reimagined and published the classic story of the Ramayan with stunning success. Guided by Tulsidas's sixteenth-century Rāmcaritmānasin Avadhi, Kathavachak composed his religious epic, the Radheshyam Ramayan, in Hindi-Urdu to make it comprehensible to modern audiences and to be able to sing and explicate it in devotional concerts (kathā). Even so, the work was quickly incorporated into the scripts of annual Ramlila theatrical productions in the Rohilkhand region and beyond.
Based on extensive literary, archival, and ethnographic research,The Radheshyam Ramayan in Text and Performancetakes readers on a journey through Kathavachak's hometown of Bareilly and his cosmopolitan world of Hindi letters and performance. The book demonstrates how Kathavachak's Ramayan, a purported translation, departs significantly from Tulsidas's famous Ramayan, and includes personal vignettes of actors who have declaimed Kathavachak's verses on a Ramlila stage in Bareilly. While Kathavachak is primarily known for his mythological plays and contributions to the commercial theatre, The Radheshyam Ramayan in Text and Performance reveals other aspects of Kathavachak's world, illustrating how he left an indelible mark on India's distinctive "epic modernity."
Table of Contents:
Front Matter
Preface
Acknowedgements
Introduction
Pandit Radheshyam’s City of Bareilly
The Cosmopolitan World of Radheshyam Kathavachak
A New Ramayan for a New Age
The Sanskritization of a Hindi-Urdu Epic
Kathavachak’s Characters and the Artists Who Play Them
Conclusion
Appendix: The Story of Ram in Ramlila
Index
