Volume Editorial It gives me pleasure to write a few words by way of editorial to this monograph of my dear student Ms. Manjushree Hegde. This monograph problematises Professor Sheldon Pollock’s interpretation of the Rāmāyaṇa. Epic v/s Itihāsa It is typical of Western scholars to treat Indian Itihāsa-s and Purāṇa-s on par with their own epics – viz. […]