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Culture and power in Banaras: community, performance, and environment, 1800-1980
Sandria B Freitag
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Frontmatter
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS (page vii)
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CONTRIBUTORS (page ix)
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PREFACE (page xi)
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NOTES ON TRANSLITERATION (page xvii)
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INTRODUCTION: THE HISTORY AND POLITICAL ECONOMY OF BANARAS (page 1)
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PART 1 / PERFORMANCE AND PATRONAGE
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Introduction (page 25)
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1. Rām's Story in Shiva's City: Public Arenas and Private Patronage (Philip Lutgendorf, page 34)
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2. The Birth of Hindi Drama in Banaras, 1868-1885 (Kathryn Hansen, page 62)
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3. The Rise of a Folk Music Genre: Birahā (Scott L. Marcus, page 93)
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PART 2 / IDENTITY AND CONSTRUCTIONS OF COMMUNITY IN BANARAS
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Introduction (page 117)
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4. Protection and Identity: Banaras's Bīr Babas as Neighborhood Guardian Deities (Diane M. Coccari, page 130)
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5. Work and Leisure in the Formation of Identity: Muslim Weavers in a Hindu City (Nita Kumar, page 147)
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PART 3 / BANARAS IN WIDER ARENAS
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Introduction (page 173)
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6. Forging a New Linguistic Identity: The Hindi Movement in Banaras, 1868-1914 (Christopher R. King, page 179)
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7. State and Community: Symbolic Popular Protest in Banaras's Public Arenas (Sandria B. Freitag, page 203)
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8. Land Use and Environmental Change in the Gangetic Plain: Nineteenth-Century Human Activity in the Banaras Region (Robert G. Varady, page 229)
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9. The Ecology and Cosmology of Disease in the Banaras Region (David Arnold, page 246)
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LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS (page 269)
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BIBLIOGRAPHY (page 271)
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INDEX (page 287)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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JAS | 49.4 (Nov. 1990): 968-969 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/2058308 |
SOS | 19.3/4 (Mar.-Apr. 1991): 96-100 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/3517559 |
JIH | 21.4 (Spring 1991): 728-730 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/204493 |
DRJ | 23.1 (Spring 1991): 39-40 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/1478700 |
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Published: 1992
Publisher: University of California Press
- 9780520063679 (hardcover)
- 9780520080942 (paper)