Gods on Earth: The Management of Religious Experience and Identity in a North Indian Pilgrimage CentreBloomsbury Academic, 1988 - 310 pages A detailed historical anthropology of Ayodhya, which argues that religious values can reflect political and economic processes. |
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... Hindu - Muslim conflict from the middle of the nineteenth century till the present day . We will describe the development of these conflicts later , but here we may say that , until very recently , the government of India kept the ...
... Hindu - Muslim conflict from the middle of the nineteenth century till the present day . We will describe the development of these conflicts later , but here we may say that , until very recently , the government of India kept the ...
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... Hinduism in Ayodhya . Hindu worship remained possible in the compound of the newly built Babar mosque and the activities of Brahman pandas are recorded by the first European to visit the place , William Finch , between 1608 and 1611 ...
... Hinduism in Ayodhya . Hindu worship remained possible in the compound of the newly built Babar mosque and the activities of Brahman pandas are recorded by the first European to visit the place , William Finch , between 1608 and 1611 ...
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... Hindu ministers . The reason for this sudden strong Muslim patronage of Hindu institutions can be found in the process in which Awadh under its nawabs passed from the status of a Mughal province to that of an autonomous regional state ...
... Hindu ministers . The reason for this sudden strong Muslim patronage of Hindu institutions can be found in the process in which Awadh under its nawabs passed from the status of a Mughal province to that of an autonomous regional state ...
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Sarayu and the ghats | 9 |
The presence of | 18 |
The conjunction of time and place | 28 |
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