TALES FROM THE RAMAYANA AN INVESTIGATION INTO SOCIOLOGY
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The Ramayana tradition has always significantly emphasized travel and encounters throughout its history. It is possible to facilitate a journey on numerous levels by laying it out. An "imagined golden age" of Hinduism, as described in the Ramayana, is the basis for this theory, which argues that Hindu nationalism is built on the idealisation of this period. By evoking the image of a shared past, the Hindutva ideology has utilized Ramayana’s pervasiveness as a narrative embedded in regional and widespread culture and language to establish and reinforce an ‘imagined community’ which was augmented considerably by the enormous reach and popularity of Ramanand Sagar’s 1987 television serial Ramayana. There is not a single popular Rama tale that is free of polarisation, despite historians and poets engaging in heated debates. Even though Rama is an obvious fallacy, he is still considered either a hero or a ruler, but he is never considered an offender.
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