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Culture and power in Banaras : community, performance, and environment, 1800-1980

Title: Culture and power in Banaras : community, performance, and environment, 1800-1980 / edited by Sandria B. Freitag.
Publication: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1989.

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Additional Authors

Freitag, Sandria B.

Description

xviii, 290 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Uniform Title

Free online access: California Digital Library.

Subject

Genre/Form

Aufsatzsammlung.

Note

Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

Bibliography: p. 271-285.

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.

ISBN

0520063678
9780520063679
0520080947
9780520080942

LCCN

88021092

OCLC

ocm18191167
18191167
SCSB-14497226

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Princeton University Library