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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Raminder Kaur
Formato: Printed Book
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Delhi : Bangalore :bDistributed by Orient Longman, Permanent Black ; c2003.
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300 |a xix, 306 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 22 cm. 
500 |a Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.--SOAS, University of London, 1998). 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-297) and index. 
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