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Benares seen from within / photographs and text by Richard Lannoy.

Title
Benares seen from within / photographs and text by Richard Lannoy.
Author
Lannoy, Richard.
Publication
Seattle : University of Washington Press, [1999?]

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Description
640 p. : ill. (some col.), maps; 32 cm.
Summary
  • "A rare combination of creative photography and cultural history put together by one man, this book both visually and textually is the most massive presentation of this extraordinary city ever attempted. It is the fruit of a lifelong interest in Benares from 1953 until the present day."
  • "Lannoy's Benares is no tourist's idyll, nor yet is it an exercise in peddling a 'Third World' mythology of exotica garnished with grunge. Unflinching in his observations, yet enormously sensitive to his subject, Lannoy records the everyday life of Hinduism's most sacred city. And it is not through the formal acts of ritual, but through the most ordinary gestures of river-side and marketplace that the charged, heightened drama of life in Benares unfolds."--Jacket.
Subject
  • Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh, India) > Description and travel
  • Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh, India) > Pictorial works
Genre/Form
Pictorial works
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 633-635) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Foreword / Anand Krishna -- Photographic Section. 1. Prelude -- Forest of Ananda. 2. Pilgrims and Bathers. 3. The Riverside. 4. Temples Worship Rites. 5. Abode of the Gods. 6. Yoga Gymnastics Ascetics. 7. Forest of Artha -- Lanes and Bazaars. 8. Forest of Artha -- Streetlife. 9. Forest of Artha -- Cityscape. 10. Countryfolk. 11. Crafts. 12. Wisdom and Grace. 13. Sarnath Renewed. 14. Nocturn -- Text Section -- Introduction: A Photographer's Way of Seeing. I. The Centre of the World. II. The Cosmogram. III. Benares as a State of Mind. IV. A Guide for Benares. V. The Interconnectedness of Things. VI. Forest of Bliss. VII. Shiva and the Lat Bhairo. VIII. Dissolution, Death and Regeneration. IX. The Meaning of Pilgrimage. X. Ganga. XI. Hinduism in Practice. XII. Abode of the Gods. XIII. Glimpses of History. 1. The Indo-Aryans. 2. The Ten-Horse Sacrifice. 3. The Kingdom of Kashi. 4. Centre of Learning. 5. The Buddha and Benares.
ISBN
029597835X
LCCN
^^^00272532^
OCLC
  • 42919796
  • SCSB-12584190
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library