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Record Nr.

UNINA9910495873603321

Titolo

Culture and power in Banaras : community, performance, and environment, 1800-1980 / / edited by Sandria B. Freitag

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [1989]

ISBN

9780585111117

0585111111

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xviii, 290 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

954/.2

Soggetti

Power (Social sciences)

Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh, India) Civilization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.