Gīdh deh taji dhari Hari rūpā (iii.cau.32): Tul’sī’s Rām-carit-mānas and the Hinduization of the Other in early modern India
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.