| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Global South Asia
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Global South Asia.
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| Note |
Outgrowth of the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of California, Berkeley, 2008) under the title: Resurrecting Banaras : urban space, architecture and religious boundaries. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Between the late sixteenth and early twentieth centuries, Banaras, the iconic Hindu center in northern India that is often described as the oldest living city in the world, was reconstructed materially as well as imaginatively, and embellished with temples, monasteries, mansions, and ghats (riverfront fortress-palaces). Banaras's refurbished sacred landscape became the subject of pilgrimage maps and its spectacular riverfront was depicted in panoramas and described in travelogues. Madhuri Desai examines the confluences, as well as the tensions, that have shaped this complex and remarkable city. In so doing, she raises issues central to historical as well as contemporary Indian identity and delves into larger questions about religious urban environments in South Asia. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Hindu architecture -- India -- Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)
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Hindu architecture. |
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India -- Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh) |
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Sacred space -- India -- Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)
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Sacred space. |
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Architecture and society -- Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)
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Architecture and society. |
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Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh, India) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Desai, Madhuri (Madhuri Shrikant). Banaras reconstructed. Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2017 9780295741604 (DLC) 2016050496 (OCoLC)962140580 |
| ISBN |
9780295741611 (electronic book) |
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0295741619 (electronic book) |
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9780295741604 |
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0295741600 |
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9780295741994 |
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0295741996 |
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