Ritual as Ideology V.S. Ramanan Halahala-Lokesvara 332 163

Halahala-Lokesvara 332 163

The objectives for which the Bhavan stands are the reintegration of the Indian culture in the light of modern knowledge and to suit out present day needs and the resuscitation of its fundamental values in their pristine vigour

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

a doctrine of faith the parallels Western doctrines of grace while reflecting a complex historical and doctrinal cross-current of faith

Mahipati used it in his Bhakatavijaya account of Eknãth

Ritual as Ideology V.S. Ramanan Halahala-Lokesvara 332 163Teyyam, 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specificities of meaning and messages as encoded in the whole structure of its ritual performance were leveled out and superceded by the ideological laundering of caste Hinduism.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