Ricerc@Sapienza

In this essay I argue that the use of the polarity principle as a heuristic tool can reveal embedded or structural continuities throughout the history of Indian civilization. To substantiate this hypothesis, I analyse how the polarity constituted by elements such as movement, nomadism, mobility, and homelessness, on the one

As the perfect epitome of a narrative that aims at circumscribing the perimeters of the identity of “Self ” and “Other”, the perennial “story of Rāma” (Rāma-kathā) has been subject to innumerable re-makings, whose communicative contents usually represented a function of the current social and political circumstances and of the related dynamics of power.