Banaras Reconstructed

Architecture and Sacred Space in a Hindu Holy City

Madhuri Desai (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

304 Seiten

2017
University of Washington Press (Verlag)
9780295741994 (ISBN)

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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.

Madhuri Desai is associate professor of art history and Asian studies at the Pennsylvania State University. She is the coeditor of Colonial Frames, Nationalist Histories: Imperial Legacies, Architecture, and Modernity.

Introduction The Paradox of Banaras

1. Authenticity and Pilgrimage

2. Palimpsests and Authority

3. Expansion and Invention

4. Spectacle and Ritual

5. Order and Antiquity

6. Visions and Embellishments

Conclusion Banaras Revisited

Erscheinungsdatum	23.06.2017
Reihe/Serie	Global South Asia
Zusatzinfo	8 color illus., 115 b&w illus., 7 maps
Verlagsort	Seattle
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	658 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-13	9780295741994 / 9780295741994
Zustand	Neuware