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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Page 214
... beginning of the nineteenth centuries . This long - term process first had its influence on the greatest pilgrimage centres which are described by Bayly , but soon embraced also a more parochial place like Ayodhya , which was , moreover ...
... beginning of the nineteenth centuries . This long - term process first had its influence on the greatest pilgrimage centres which are described by Bayly , but soon embraced also a more parochial place like Ayodhya , which was , moreover ...
Page 229
... beginning of the nineteenth century we sometimes find the designation ' Sarayuputra ' used for an Ayodhya panda family which was later to be found among the signatories of the Gangaputra document . My suggestion would be that the ...
... beginning of the nineteenth century we sometimes find the designation ' Sarayuputra ' used for an Ayodhya panda family which was later to be found among the signatories of the Gangaputra document . My suggestion would be that the ...
Page 269
... beginning of the twentieth century they severed these putative links quite deliberately . Another example is that of the Ayodhya pandas . Gangaram most vigorously asserts his claims over strategically located sites in the pilgrimage ...
... beginning of the twentieth century they severed these putative links quite deliberately . Another example is that of the Ayodhya pandas . Gangaram most vigorously asserts his claims over strategically located sites in the pilgrimage ...
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Sarayu and the ghats | 9 |
The presence of | 18 |
The conjunction of time and place | 28 |
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