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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... became the temple's pūjāris ( officiating priests ) . -- As a matter of course this temple – being the birthplace of the god - became one of the most important temples of Ayodhya . It was , however , destroyed by the Moghul emperor ...
... became the temple's pūjāris ( officiating priests ) . -- As a matter of course this temple – being the birthplace of the god - became one of the most important temples of Ayodhya . It was , however , destroyed by the Moghul emperor ...
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... became in this way a marketable commodity . The ghats which were built for the benefit of the pilgrims were thus subdivided into plots of land ( zamin ) and the pandas became the landowners ( zamīndārs ) . This situation was not an ...
... became in this way a marketable commodity . The ghats which were built for the benefit of the pilgrims were thus subdivided into plots of land ( zamin ) and the pandas became the landowners ( zamīndārs ) . This situation was not an ...
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... became the established group , while the Bhareriyas , with a few exceptions , remained outsiders . There were at least three points in the pilgrimage system in which crucial interests were vested : the pilgrim registers , the chowkees ...
... became the established group , while the Bhareriyas , with a few exceptions , remained outsiders . There were at least three points in the pilgrimage system in which crucial interests were vested : the pilgrim registers , the chowkees ...
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Sarayu and the ghats | 9 |
The presence of | 18 |
The conjunction of time and place | 28 |
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