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UNINA9910495873603321 |
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Titolo |
Culture and power in Banaras : community, performance, and environment, 1800-1980 / / edited by Sandria B. Freitag |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [1989] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xviii, 290 pages) : illustrations |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Power (Social sciences) |
Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh, India) Civilization |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Rām's story in Shiva's city : public arenas and private patronage / Philip Lutgendorf -- The birth of Hindi drama in Banaras, 1868-1885 / Kathryn Hansen -- The rise of a folk music genre : Birahā / Scott L. Marcus -- Protection and identity : Banaras's Bīr Babas as neighborhood guardian deities / Diane M. Coccari -- Work and leisure in the formation of identity : Muslim weavers in a Hindu city / Nita Kumar -- Forging a new linguistic identity : the Hindi movement in Banaras, 1868-1914 / Christopher R. King -- State and community : symbolic popular protest in Banaras's public areas / Sandria B. Freitag -- Land use and environmental change in the Gangetic Plain : nineteenth-century human activity in the Banaras Region / Robert G. Varady -- The ecology and cosmology of disease in the Banaras Region / David Arnold. |
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