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Culture and power in Banaras: community, performance, and environment, 1800-1980

Sandria B Freitag 1992 © University of California Press
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ISBN(s)
  • 9780520063679 (hardcover)
  • 9780520080942 (paper)
Subject
  • Asian: South and Southeast
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  • Table of Contents

  • Reviews

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  • Frontmatter
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS (page vii)
  • CONTRIBUTORS (page ix)
  • PREFACE (page xi)
  • NOTES ON TRANSLITERATION (page xvii)
  • INTRODUCTION: THE HISTORY AND POLITICAL ECONOMY OF BANARAS (page 1)
  • PART 1 / PERFORMANCE AND PATRONAGE
    • Introduction (page 25)
    • 1. Rām's Story in Shiva's City: Public Arenas and Private Patronage (Philip Lutgendorf, page 34)
    • 2. The Birth of Hindi Drama in Banaras, 1868-1885 (Kathryn Hansen, page 62)
    • 3. The Rise of a Folk Music Genre: Birahā (Scott L. Marcus, page 93)
  • PART 2 / IDENTITY AND CONSTRUCTIONS OF COMMUNITY IN BANARAS
    • Introduction (page 117)
    • 4. Protection and Identity: Banaras's Bīr Babas as Neighborhood Guardian Deities (Diane M. Coccari, page 130)
    • 5. Work and Leisure in the Formation of Identity: Muslim Weavers in a Hindu City (Nita Kumar, page 147)
  • PART 3 / BANARAS IN WIDER ARENAS
    • Introduction (page 173)
    • 6. Forging a New Linguistic Identity: The Hindi Movement in Banaras, 1868-1914 (Christopher R. King, page 179)
    • 7. State and Community: Symbolic Popular Protest in Banaras's Public Arenas (Sandria B. Freitag, page 203)
    • 8. Land Use and Environmental Change in the Gangetic Plain: Nineteenth-Century Human Activity in the Banaras Region (Robert G. Varady, page 229)
    • 9. The Ecology and Cosmology of Disease in the Banaras Region (David Arnold, page 246)
  • LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS (page 269)
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY (page 271)
  • INDEX (page 287)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JAS 49.4 (Nov. 1990): 968-969 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2058308
SOS 19.3/4 (Mar.-Apr. 1991): 96-100 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3517559
JIH 21.4 (Spring 1991): 728-730 http://www.jstor.org/stable/204493
DRJ 23.1 (Spring 1991): 39-40 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1478700
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