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The powerful ephemeral everyday healing in an ambiguously Islamic place

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bellamy, Carla
Format: Printed Book
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.
Series:South Asia across the disciplines
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Ambiguity: Ḥusain Ṭekrī and Indian dargāḥ culture
  • Place: the making of a pilgrimage and a pilgrimage center
  • People: the tale of the four virtuous women
  • Absence: lobān, volunteerism, and abundance
  • Presence: the work and the workings of ḥāẓirī
  • Personae: transgression, otherness, cosmopolitanism, and kinship
  • Conclusion: The powerful ephemeral: dargāḥ culture in contemporary India.