Banaras Reconstructed (eBook)

Architecture and Sacred Space in a Hindu Holy City

Madhuri Desai (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
304 Seiten
University of Washington Press (Verlag)
978-0-295-74161-1 (ISBN)

Infos

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). Banarass 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.

Autor

lt;P>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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.7.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Global South Asia
• Reihe/Serie: Global South Asia
• Verlagsort: Seattle
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 180 x 180 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• ISBN-10: 0-295-74161-9 / 0295741619
• ISBN-13: 978-0-295-74161-1 / 9780295741611