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Banaras Reconstructed
- Architecture and Sacred Space in a Hindu Holy City
Engelsk Hardback
Banaras Reconstructed
- Architecture and Sacred Space in a Hindu Holy City
Engelsk Hardback

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Between the late sixteenth and early twentieth centuries, Banaras, the iconic Hindu center in northern India that is often described as the oldest living city in the world, was reconstructed materially as well as imaginatively, and embellished with temples, monasteries, mansions, and ghats (riverfront fortress-palaces). Banaras’s refurbished sacred landscape became the subject of pilgrimage maps and its spectacular riverfront was depicted in panoramas and described in travelogues.

In Banaras Reconstructed, Madhuri Desai examines the confluences, as well as the tensions, that have shaped this complex and remarkable city. In so doing, she raises issues central to historical as well as contemporary Indian identity and delves into larger questions about religious urban environments in South Asia.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
304
ISBN-13:
9780295741604
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0295741600
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
27 jun 2017
Længde:
0mm
Bredde:
178mm
Højde:
254mm
Forlag:
University of Washington Press
Oplagsdato:
27 jun 2017
Forfatter(e):
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