ABSTRACT
Indira Goswami conducted research comparing Tulsidas’ popular epic Ramcharitamanas with the Assamese poet Madhab Kandali’s Ramayana. She subsequently published the book Ramayana from Ganga to Brahmaputra which was her research thesis. This voluminous work was published in 1996 and released by the then President of India Dr Sankar Dayal Sharma. She was awarded the International Tulsi Award for her contribution to the study of Ramayana by Florida International University in 1999. The work is a powerful tool to understand the Ramayana tradition in this part of the country as it deals extensively with Madhab Kandali’s Ramayana, a pioneering work in the eastern zone of India. Madhav Kandali’s Ramayana and Tulsidas’s Ramcharitamanas portray the cultural expression of the 14th century Assamese society and North Indian society respectively. The chapter aims at reflecting the sociocultural life as represented in Ramayana from Ganga to Brahmaputra through the eyes of Indira Goswami.
