RAM SETU AND DELUSIONS OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL GRANDEUR: The Politics of Obscuring a Sacred Geology.
This article discusses the Indian film Ram Setu (2022) against the backdrop of 21st century public discourses, geological debates, legal proceedings and the general surge of politics revolving around the eponymous tombolo - Ram Setu/Adam's Bridge (understood by geologists as a stretch of 103 patchy...
| Publicado en: | Shima Vol. 18; no. 2; pp. 184 - 208 |
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Philip Hayward
2024
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