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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... groups . In that period a professional group of local Brahmans with caste - like boundaries , called the Gangaputras , was formed . Simultaneously , a group of Bhareriya outsiders , known as ' spurious Brahmans ' in the contemporary ...
... groups . In that period a professional group of local Brahmans with caste - like boundaries , called the Gangaputras , was formed . Simultaneously , a group of Bhareriya outsiders , known as ' spurious Brahmans ' in the contemporary ...
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... groups is inter- twined with the history of the Ramanandis , as we shall see later , but there are also groups with a rather more independent history , for example the Sikhs who have a gurdwārā beside the river at Brahmakund . For them ...
... groups is inter- twined with the history of the Ramanandis , as we shall see later , but there are also groups with a rather more independent history , for example the Sikhs who have a gurdwārā beside the river at Brahmakund . For them ...
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... groups ( jamāt and khālsā ) , and regional circles ( mandals ) . No doubt , these are extremely loosely organized groups , but there is at least one strong social relation on which they are based : that between guru and disciple . There ...
... groups ( jamāt and khālsā ) , and regional circles ( mandals ) . No doubt , these are extremely loosely organized groups , but there is at least one strong social relation on which they are based : that between guru and disciple . There ...
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Sarayu and the ghats | 9 |
The presence of | 18 |
The conjunction of time and place | 28 |
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