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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 K35 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kaur, Raminder.
- Series:
- Anthem South Asian studies
- 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:
- xxii, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Other Title:
- Performative politics & the cultures of Hinduism
- Place of Publication:
- London : Anthem Press, 2005.
- Summary:
- "Performative Politics and the Cultures of Hinduism" focuses on one of the major festivals of western India, the Ganapati utsava, dedicated to the elephant-headed god. Raminder Kaur uses this occasion as the central anthropological and historiographical site within which to examine the dynamic relationship between spectacle, religion and nationalist politics.
- 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:
- Originally published: Delhi : Permanent Black , 2003.
- Performative politics & the cultures of Hinduism.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [277]-297) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1843311380
- 1843311399
- OCLC:
- 60801870
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