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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Freitag, Sandria B., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Power (Social sciences).

Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh, India)--Civilization.

Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh, India).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 290 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Community, performance, and environment, 1800-1980

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [1989]

Language Note:

English

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780585111117

0585111111

Publisher Number:

2027/heb32105 hdl