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 vii
... received the invaluable help of Ram Raksha Tripathi who acted as my guide , interpreter , teacher , informant and what not . My wife and I were accepted as members of his family and , what is more , we feel like that . Thanks to the ...
... received the invaluable help of Ram Raksha Tripathi who acted as my guide , interpreter , teacher , informant and what not . My wife and I were accepted as members of his family and , what is more , we feel like that . Thanks to the ...
Page 144
... received enormous jagirs . Barnett's research makes the situation in which the Ramanandis flourished clear enough . A moot question remains , however , as to why it was the Ramanandis who received so much backing . In Barnett's ...
... received enormous jagirs . Barnett's research makes the situation in which the Ramanandis flourished clear enough . A moot question remains , however , as to why it was the Ramanandis who received so much backing . In Barnett's ...
Page 258
... received as income to Gangaram . In October 1982 a Bhareriya guided a group of pilgrims around some temples in Ayodhya and received part of the pilgrims ' offerings in these temples , a practice which incidentally reveals another side ...
... received as income to Gangaram . In October 1982 a Bhareriya guided a group of pilgrims around some temples in Ayodhya and received part of the pilgrims ' offerings in these temples , a practice which incidentally reveals another side ...
Contents
Sarayu and the ghats | 9 |
The presence of | 18 |
The conjunction of time and place | 28 |
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