Ramdas Lamb is Associate Professor of Religion at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Preface

Notes on Transliteration

Introduction

1. Providing the Context

2. Historical Development of the Ram Tradition

3. Ramnam and the Ram Story in Hindi

4. Religion and the Low Caste in Central India

5. The Ramnami Samaj: Its Contemporary Forms

6. Ramnamis' Contemporary Use of the Manas and Ramnam

7. The Ramnami Life: Six Biographic Sketches

Conclusion: A Question of Values

Appendix I

Appendix II

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

Index