'Performative Politics and the Cultures of Hinduism' focuses on one of the major festivals of western India, the Ganapati Utsava, dedicated to the elephant-headed god. Raminder Kaur uses this occasion as the central anthropological and historiographical site within which to examine the dynamic relationship between spectacle, religion and nationalist politics.
Performative Politics and the Cultures of Hinduism: Public Uses of Religion in Western India (Anthem South Asian Studies)
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Author(s)Raminder Kaur
PublisherAnthem Press
ISBN / ASIN1843311399
ISBN-139781843311393
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Sales Rank3,829,509
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