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

Title
  1. Culture and power in Banaras : community, performance, and environment, 1800-1980 / edited by Sandria B. Freitag.
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  1. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1989.

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Additional authors
  1. Freitag, Sandria B.
Description
  1. xviii, 290 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Uniform title
  1. Free online access: California Digital Library.
Subject
  1. Geschichte 1800-1980
  2. Sozialgeschichte 1800-1980
  3. Geschichte 1800-1980
  4. Sozialgeschichte 1800-1980
  5. Power (Social sciences)
  6. Pouvoir (Sciences sociales)
  7. Civilization
  8. Sozialstruktur
  9. Aufsatzsammlung
  10. Pouvoir (sciences sociales)
  11. Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh, India) > Civilization
  12. India > Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)
  13. Varanasi
  14. Bénarès (Inde) > Civilisation
  15. Bénarès (Inde) > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle
  16. Bénarès (Inde) > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle
  17. India (Republic). Vārānasi Cultural processes, history
  18. Civilization History, 1785-1984
  19. India
Genre/Form
  1. Aufsatzsammlung.
Contents
  1. Rām's story in Shiva's city : public arenas and private patronage / Philip Lutgendorf -- The birth of Hindi drama in Banaras, 1868-1885 / Kathryn Hansen -- The rise of a folk music genre : Birahā / Scott L. Marcus -- Protection and identity : Banaras's Bīr Babas as neighborhood guardian deities / Diane M. Coccari -- Work and leisure in the formation of identity : Muslim weavers in a Hindu city / Nita Kumar -- Forging a new linguistic identity : the Hindi movement in Banaras, 1868-1914 / Christopher R. King -- State and community : symbolic popular protest in Banaras's public areas / Sandria B. Freitag -- Land use and environmental change in the Gangetic Plain : nineteenth-century human activity in the Banaras Region / Robert G. Varady -- The ecology and cosmology of disease in the Banaras Region / David Arnold.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Note
  1. Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Bibliography: p. 271-285.