Home›Sources›Kapur, Actors, Pilgrims, Kings and Gods: The Ramlila of RamnagarSourcesKapur, Actors, Pilgrims, Kings and Gods: The Ramlila of RamnagarCitation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "Kapur, Actors, Pilgrims, Kings and Gods: The Ramlila of Ramnagar." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://divinity.interactivelion.com/sources/kapur-actors-pilgrims-kings-and-gods-ramlila-of-ramnagar.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). Kapur, Actors, Pilgrims, Kings and Gods: The Ramlila of Ramnagar. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://divinity.interactivelion.com/sources/kapur-actors-pilgrims-kings-and-gods-ramlila-of-ramnagarCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-kapur-actors-pilgrims-kings-and-gods-the, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {Kapur, Actors, Pilgrims, Kings and Gods: The Ramlila of Ramnagar}, year = {2026}, url = {https://divinity.interactivelion.com/sources/kapur-actors-pilgrims-kings-and-gods-ramlila-of-ramnagar}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXActors, Pilgrims, Kings and Gods: The Ramlila of Ramnagar, by the theatre scholar Anuradha Kapur, Seagull Books, 1990, is an academic study of the month long Ramlila staged at Ramnagar across the Ganges from Varanasi, examining its history, its staging conventions and its standing as both religious ritual and popular theatre.FactsCross-Tradition ConnectionsClaims Backed By This Source (11 claims)Comments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)FactsAssessmentReliability TierWell-attested2Anuradha Kapur's Actors, Pilgrims, Kings and Gods: The Ramlila of Ramnagar, Seagull Books, 1990, the middle tier reflecting a genuine academic study by a theatre scholar from an independent Indian academic press rather than a major international university press, weighed against its dedicated, sustained treatment of exactly this performance tradition's history and staging.NotesWell-attestedA specialist academic study of the Ramnagar Ramlila specifically, covering its history, staging and religious meaning, drawn from the author's own fieldwork; sits below a primary UNESCO record because it is one scholar's interpretive account rather than an official register, but above a general encyclopedia because it is peer reviewed academic monograph literature focused on this exact performance tradition. No canonical online edition exists to link; this is a print monograph, so the url field is left absent rather than guessed.CitationAuthorWell-attestedAnuradha KapurPublisherWell-attestedSeagull BooksPublication YearWell-attested1990Source TypeWell-attestedacademic monographCross-Tradition ConnectionsAssociated WithVaranasi, Cities Well-attested This source names Varanasi directly: "at Ramnagar across the Ganges from Varanasi, examining its history, its staging conventions and its standing as both religious ritual and popular theatre."Source Kapur, Actors, Pilgrims, Kings and Gods: The Ramlila of RamnagarAnuradha Kapurtier 2Claims Backed By This Source (11 claims)This source backs 11 claims across the atlas. As facts: 8 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 1 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.Disposition By TopicSources, 8 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 holds.Performance Works, 3 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 1 general references.Well-attested8Performance WorksRamlilaSourcesKapur, Actors, Pilgrims, Kings and Gods: The Ramlila of RamnagarScholarly debate1Performance WorksRamlilaHolds1SourcesKapur, Actors, Pilgrims, Kings and Gods: The Ramlila of RamnagarGeneral References1Performance WorksRamlilaComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year