Actors, Pilgrims, Kings and Gods: The Ramlila of Ramnagar, by the theatre scholar Anuradha Kapur, Seagull Books, 1990, is an academic study of the month long Ramlila staged at Ramnagar across the Ganges from Varanasi, examining its history, its staging conventions and its standing as both religious ritual and popular theatre.
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Anuradha Kapur's Actors, Pilgrims, Kings and Gods: The Ramlila of Ramnagar, Seagull Books, 1990, the middle tier reflecting a genuine academic study by a theatre scholar from an independent Indian academic press rather than a major international university press, weighed against its dedicated, sustained treatment of exactly this performance tradition's history and staging. NotesA specialist academic study of the Ramnagar Ramlila specifically, covering its history, staging and religious meaning, drawn from the author's own fieldwork; sits below a primary UNESCO record because it is one scholar's interpretive account rather than an official register, but above a general encyclopedia because it is peer reviewed academic monograph literature focused on this exact performance tradition. No canonical online edition exists to link; this is a print monograph, so the url field is left absent rather than guessed.
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AuthorAnuradha Kapur
PublisherSeagull Books
Publication Year1990
Source Typeacademic monograph
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This source names Varanasi directly: "at Ramnagar across the Ganges from Varanasi, examining its history, its staging conventions and its standing as both religious ritual and popular theatre."
Source Kapur, Actors, Pilgrims, Kings and Gods: The Ramlila of RamnagarAnuradha Kapur
Claims Backed By This Source (11 claims)
This source backs 11 claims across the atlas. As facts: 8 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 1 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 8 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Performance Works, 3 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 1 general references.
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