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 227
... rajas , and pandas of Sarayuparin Brahman caste . This configuration did not fall apart when other status groups started to flock to Ayodhya in increasing numbers . The question then became one of the impact these élite jajmani bonds ...
... rajas , and pandas of Sarayuparin Brahman caste . This configuration did not fall apart when other status groups started to flock to Ayodhya in increasing numbers . The question then became one of the impact these élite jajmani bonds ...
Page 244
... rajas have also undergone great changes during the twentieth century . We have seen that these relations were used by the Gangaputras as paradigmatic models for new jajmani bonds to be contracted by the ' subjects ' of these rajas and ...
... rajas have also undergone great changes during the twentieth century . We have seen that these relations were used by the Gangaputras as paradigmatic models for new jajmani bonds to be contracted by the ' subjects ' of these rajas and ...
Page 245
... raja to landlord like so many of their petty colleagues at the end of the nineteenth century . A second and even more serious blow to the economic status of both rajas and landlords alike was dealt to them by the several land reform ...
... raja to landlord like so many of their petty colleagues at the end of the nineteenth century . A second and even more serious blow to the economic status of both rajas and landlords alike was dealt to them by the several land reform ...
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Sarayu and the ghats | 9 |
The presence of | 18 |
The conjunction of time and place | 28 |
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