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Performative politics and the cultures of Hinduism : public uses of religion in Western India / Raminder Kaur.

Van Pelt Library BL1225.G343 M357 2003
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Kaur, Raminder.
Series:
Permanent Black monographs. Opus 1 series
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Gaṇeśa Nātu (Hindu deity)--Cult--India--Maharashtra--Cult--India--Maharashtra.
Gaṇeśa Nātu.
Hinduism and culture--India--Maharashtra.
Hinduism and culture.
Religion and politics--India--Maharashtra.
Religion and politics.
India--Maharashtra.
Physical Description:
xix, 306 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Other Title:
Performative politics & the cultures of Hinduism
Place of Publication:
Delhi : Permanent Black ; Bangalore :bDistributed by Orient Longman, [2003]
Contents:
1 The Promise of Performative Politics: Mobilised Efficacy
Festive Moments;
The Public Field
A Multifaceted Festival
Slippery Performers
2 'Seething with Sedition': Recasting Tilak's Interventions
Martial Murti
Fire in the Belly of the Gods
A Festival in Ferment
A Whirlpool of Movements
3 The Spectacle of Drama and the Drama of Spectacle: Creative Patriotism
A Long Train of Etceteras
Fractured Publics, Moving Scenes
Mandap Types
Spectacular Politics
4 Ganesh Chaturthi: Festival as Praxis: 'An Antidote to Vague Despair'
Engaging with Mandap Tableaux
Synaesthesia, Pleasure-Principles
Society of Spectator
Vitality
The Immersion Procession
The 'Saffronisation' of Public Space
5 Mandal, Media, and the Market: Gods and Goods
The Business of Religion
Marking the Event
Overviewing of the Three Rounds
Assessing the Competition
6 Open Secrets: Contemporary Political Culture in Maharashtra
The Eye of the Tiger
Street Poetics
Sainik Spectacles
An Art of Stage-Craft or State-Craft?
Variant Versionings of the Nation
Spectacles and Spectators
7 Nuclear Reactions: Bombs and the Nation
Gods, Bombs and the Social Imaginary
Explosive Scnes
The Destroyer of Worlds
8 A Nation Magic Mirrors: National or Natural?
Envisaging the Nation
Heroic Figures
Iconic Events
Space and Territory
Gendered Tropes of the Nation, Perceptions of the Other
Future Horizons
Modern Totems and Metaphors
Homing In
9 An Imperfect Osmosis.
Notes:
Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.--SOAS, University of London, 1998).
Includes bibliographical references (pages [277]-297) and index.
ISBN:
8178240475
OCLC:
54073232

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