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ISBN 10: 0520313399
ISBN 13: 9780520313392
Author: Sandria Freitag

This collection of ten essays on Banaras, one of the largest urban centers in India’s eastern Gangetic plain, is united by a common interest in examining everyday activities in order to learn about shared values and motivations, processes of identity formation, and self-conscious constructions of community.

Part One examines the performance genres that have drawn audiences from throughout the city. Part Two focuses on the areas of neighborhood, leisure, and work, examining the processes by which urban residents use a sense of identity to organize their activities and bring meaning to their lives. Part Three links these experiences within Banaras to a series of “larger worlds,” ranging from language movements and political protests to disease ecology and regional environmental impact.

Banaras is a complex world, with differences in religion, caste, class, language, and popular culture; the diversity of these essays embraces those differences. It is a collection that will interest scholars and students of South Asia as well as anyone interested in comparative discussions of popular culture.

This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.

Cultural and Power in Banaras 1st Edition Table of contents:

PART ONE Performance and Patronage

Introduction to Part 1 Performance and Patronage

ONE Rām’s Story in Shiva’s City: Public Arenas and Private Patronage Philip Lutgendorf

TWO The Birth of Hindi Drama in Banaras, 1868-1885 Kathryn Hansen

THREE The Rise of a Folk Music Genre: Birahā Scott L. Marcus

PART TWO Identity and Constructions of Community in Banaras

Introduction to Part 2 Identity and Constructions of Community in Banaras

FOUR Protection and Identity: Banaras’s Bir Babas as Neighborhood Guardian Deities Diane M. Coccari

FIVE Work and Leisure in the Formation of Identity: Muslim Weavers in a Hindu City Nita Kumar

PART THREE Banaras in Wider Arenas

Introduction to Part 3 Banaras in Wider Arenas

SIX Forging a New Linguistic Identity: The Hindi Movement in Banaras, 1868-1914 Christopher R. King

SEVEN State and Community: Symbolic Popular Protest in Banaras’s Public Arenas Sandria B. Freitag

EIGHT Land Use and Environmental Change in the Gangetic Plain: Nineteenth-Century Human Activity in the Banaras Region Robert G. Varady

NINE The Ecology and Cosmology of Disease in the Banaras Region David Arnold

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