Ritual as Ideology V.S. Ramanan Polity and Governance

Polity and Governance

do reflect human being

and as foretold in ancient scriptures

Mahipati used it in his Bhakatavijaya account of Eknãth

aims at nothing less than to open man’s eyes to that which is not speculatively arrived at by the logical method of hypothesis and deductive verification

Ritual as Ideology V.S. Ramanan Polity and GovernanceTeyyam, the spectacular ritual dance widely performed in north Kerala, has his distinct forms of visual and verbal expression. However, what was once expressed through the distinctly indigenous forms of this religious "other" no longer remains the same, as the specificities of meaning and messages as encoded in the whole structure of its ritual performance were leveled out and superceded by the ideological laundering of caste Hinduism. RITUAL AS