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 37
... extent of the support given by several groups to their regimes depended to a great extent on their use of Islamic symbols and rhetoric . There is certainly no evidence of a total suppression of Hinduism in Ayodhya . Hindu worship ...
... extent of the support given by several groups to their regimes depended to a great extent on their use of Islamic symbols and rhetoric . There is certainly no evidence of a total suppression of Hinduism in Ayodhya . Hindu worship ...
Page 50
... extent lacking . The same situation pertains to my research on the early history of the Ramanandis and the pandas . Should the anthropologist then modestly refrain from writing history ? To some extent he should and to some extent he ...
... extent lacking . The same situation pertains to my research on the early history of the Ramanandis and the pandas . Should the anthropologist then modestly refrain from writing history ? To some extent he should and to some extent he ...
Page 237
... extent , Bhareriyas are professional groups which do not seem to have a strictly defined identity . The Gangaputras seem to be different from other Sarayuparin Brahmans only to the extent that they have the specialized profession of ...
... extent , Bhareriyas are professional groups which do not seem to have a strictly defined identity . The Gangaputras seem to be different from other Sarayuparin Brahmans only to the extent that they have the specialized profession of ...
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Sarayu and the ghats | 9 |
The presence of | 18 |
The conjunction of time and place | 28 |
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