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