Edited papers presented during the National Seminar on Rāmāyanạ Tradition in Historical Perspective in Garhwāl on November 4-5, 2003.

The Ramayana, one of the two pre-eminent Hindu epics, has played a foundational role in many aspects of India's arts and social norms. For centuries, people lea

The claim that India--uniquely among civilizations--lacks historical writing distracts us from a more pertinent question: how to recognize the historical sense

Study of the Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa, extended narrative poem on the life and exploits of Rāma, Hindu deity, from the linguistic, archaeological, and historical

With reference to India.