Banaras Reconstructed : Architecture and Sacred Space in a Hindu Holy City Hardback
by Madhuri Desai
Part of the Global South Asia series
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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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:304 pages, 8 color illus., 115 b&w illus., 7 maps
- Publisher:University of Washington Press
- Publication Date:27/06/2017
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- ISBN:9780295741604
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:304 pages, 8 color illus., 115 b&w illus., 7 maps
- Publisher:University of Washington Press
- Publication Date:27/06/2017
- Category:
- ISBN:9780295741604
