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Pilgrimage and power : the Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, 1765-1954 / Kama Maclean.
LIBRA BL1239.82.K85 M33 2008
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Maclean, Kama, 1968-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kumbha Melā (Hindu festival)--Political aspects--India--Allahabad--History.
- Kumbha Melā (Hindu festival).
- India.
- History.
- India--Allahabad.
- Kumbha Melā (Hindu festival)--Social aspects--India--Allahabad--History.
- Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 344 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Contents:
- The power of discourse, representations of the Kumbh Mela, c. 1760-2004
- Sovereign spaces Allahabad Fort and the Sangam, 1765-1860
- Mela as resistance: the modern beginnings of the ancient Kumbh in Allahabad, 1857-1870
- Proclamation, pilgrimage, and politics religion as a contestable space, 1860-1900
- Competing for minds and at the Mela organisation, nationalism, and propaganda, 1906-1942
- The Sarkari Mela : the Allahabad Kumbh, 1954.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [310]-332) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780195338942
- 0195338944
- OCLC:
- 173299432
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