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Book A Historical Mela

    Book Details:
  • Author : Osian's (Firm)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 318 pages

Download or read book A Historical Mela written by Osian's (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Historical Mela

Download or read book A Historical Mela written by Osian's (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here Is A Visual Feast Of Osian'S Hugely Successful Landmark Auction Of Memorabilia Relating To Hindi Cinema 1930S-70S. This Publication Forms An Invaluable Resource For Fans, Students And Scholars Of Indian Visual Culture And Graphic Art.

Book Pilgrimage and Power

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  • Author : Kama Maclean
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2008-08-29
  • ISBN : 0199713359
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book Pilgrimage and Power written by Kama Maclean and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-08-29 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today the Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, India, is a major Hindu religious pilgrimage and the largest religious gathering in the world. In 2001, according to the government of Uttar Pradesh, 30 million pilgrims were drawn to the confluence of the rivers Ganga and Yamuna on the most auspicious day for bathing. In an impressive feat of organization and administration, the first mela of the new millennium was managed to the overwhelming satisfaction of most, with an impressive health and safety record. The loudest complaint had to do with the intrusive presence of the media. Journalists, largely representing foreign media outlets, had swarmed to the mela, intent on broadcasting to a global audience sensational images of naked (or wet-sari-clad) Indians taking part in "ancient" religious rituals. Resistance to foreign interference with the mela has roots that go back 200 years. The British colonial state and the colonized had different ideas about what the Kumbh Mela represented: for the former, it was a potentially dangerous gathering that demanded tight regulation and control, but for the latter it was a sacred sphere in which foreign domination and interference were intolerable. In this book Kama Maclean examines this tension and the manner in which it was negotiated by each side. She asks why and how the colonial state tried to manipulate the mela and, more important, how the mela changed as Indians responded to the colonial power. In recent years many scholars have emphasized the extent to which the Kumbh Mela has been monopolized by the Hindu nationalist movement. Maclean seeks to situate the history of the Kumbh Mela in Allahabad within a much broader context. She explores the role of a pilgrimage fair like the Kumbh Mela in disseminating ideas, particularly political ones like nationalism and ideas about social reform. Kama Maclean tells the mesmerizing and important story of the Kumbh Mela with exciting detail as well as careful scholarly attention, illuminating for the reader the full scope of the event's historical and socio-political context.

Book A History of Roman Literature

Download or read book A History of Roman Literature written by Harold North Fowler and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The General Biographical Dictionary Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons      a New Ed  by Alex  Chalmers

Download or read book The General Biographical Dictionary Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons a New Ed by Alex Chalmers written by Alexander Chalmers and published by . This book was released on 1815 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of Ancient Geography

Download or read book A History of Ancient Geography written by Edward Herbert Bunbury and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of Ancient Geography Among the Greeks and Romans

Download or read book A History of Ancient Geography Among the Greeks and Romans written by Sir Edward Herbert Bunbury and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A history of ancient geography among the Greeks and Romans

Download or read book A history of ancient geography among the Greeks and Romans written by sir Edward Herbert Bunbury (9th bart.) and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of Roman Literature

Download or read book A History of Roman Literature written by Wilhelm Sigmund Teuffel and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A historical geography of the British colonies  Vol  6  of the work begun by sir C P  Lucas   Australasia

Download or read book A historical geography of the British colonies Vol 6 of the work begun by sir C P Lucas Australasia written by Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Historical Geography of the British Colonies  Australasia

Download or read book A Historical Geography of the British Colonies Australasia written by Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Historical Geography of the British Colonies

Download or read book A Historical Geography of the British Colonies written by Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Historical Geography of the British Colonies  Vol  7  India

Download or read book A Historical Geography of the British Colonies Vol 7 India written by John Davenport Rogers and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Geographical and Historical Description of Ancient Italy

Download or read book A Geographical and Historical Description of Ancient Italy written by John Anthony Cramer and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Historical Survey of the Astronomy of the Ancients

Download or read book An Historical Survey of the Astronomy of the Ancients written by Sir George Cornewall Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of Ancient Geography

Download or read book A History of Ancient Geography written by Henry Fanshawe Tozer and published by Biblo & Tannen Publishers. This book was released on 1971 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ritual  State and History in South Asia

Download or read book Ritual State and History in South Asia written by van den Hoek and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-11-27 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions in this Festschrift extend over the whole range of Indian civilization: in the first part the earlier stages of Indian history spanning the period from the Indus civilization up to medieval times, and in the second part the more recent history of South Asia.