Caste Congressmen and Swadeshi leaders defended a Brahminical version of India’s origin such as was found in the Sanskrit corpus, many of them arguing they condemned the abuses of untouchability as a concept and inter-caste dis5 or twice-born castes was never denied since it was understood as a legitimate reading of the past through the Sanskrit corpus. These canonical stories re-entered the public sphere while Gandhi and his allies assured that the Ramayana and the Mahabaratha had much relevance, be interpreted as the depiction of any adversary in society. As Sheldon Pollock Ramayana is a site of othering through its alien demons threatening the realm’s Ravanaraj to evoke British rule, something that would be repeated frequently the external enemy, and possibly internal ones as well. Swaraj Rush
sensu. Its heroes are bhakti saints who lived in a given historical period and be argued that the devotional has the same appeal as the mythological, and is fully part of the larger framework that brings together the religious nature of Sant Tukaram, continuing on with Sant Namdev and Sant Eknath Tukaram, Namdev, Eknath. of the freedom struggle paradoxically did not foster more mythological productions. The genre occupied less than twenty percent of the cinema producsatyagrahi
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Ram Rajya tion of the Ramayana with strong allusions to the forthcoming independence
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