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Banaras reconstructed : architecture and sacred space in a Hindu holy city / Madhuri Desai.
Author
Desai, Madhuri (Madhuri Shrikant)
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2017]
Description
x, 292 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
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Architecture Library - Stacks
NA1508.V37 D47 2017
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Subject(s)
Hindu architecture
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India
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Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh).
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Sacred space
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India
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Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh).
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Architecture and society
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India
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Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh).
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Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh, India)
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Buildings, structures, etc
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Series
Global South Asia
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Summary note
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.
Notes
Outgrowth of the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of California, Berkeley, 2008) under the title: Resurrecting Banaras : urban space, architecture and religious boundaries.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
ch. One Authenticity and Pilgrimage
ch. Two Palimpsests and Authority
ch. Three Expansion and Invention
ch. Four Spectacle and Ritual
ch. Five Order and Antiquity
ch. Six Visions and Embellishments. Conclusion: Banaras revisited.
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ISBN
9780295741604 ((hardcover ; : alkaline paper))
0295741600 ((hardcover ; : alkaline paper))
9780295741994 ((paperback ; : alkaline paper))
0295741996 ((paperback ; : alkaline paper))
LCCN
2016050496
OCLC
962140580
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