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Performative politics and the cultures of Hinduism : public uses of religion in Western India /
The Ganapati utsava, a major festival of western India dedicated to the elephant-headed god, raises compelling questions about the interplay of religion, spectacle and cultural politics. In a book that spans a century of epochal history, Raminder Kaur considers how the public festival has been inter...
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| Format: | Printed Book |
| Language: | English |
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Delhi : Bangalore :bDistributed by Orient Longman,
Permanent Black ;
c2003.
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| Summary: | The Ganapati utsava, a major festival of western India dedicated to the elephant-headed god, raises compelling questions about the interplay of religion, spectacle and cultural politics. In a book that spans a century of epochal history, Raminder Kaur considers how the public festival has been interwoven with everday lives as well as the making of modern Indian nation. |
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| Item Description: | Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.--SOAS, University of London, 1998). |
| Physical Description: | xix, 306 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-297) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9788178240473 |