Performative politics and the cultures of Hinduism: public uses of religion in western India

By:

Kaur, Raminder

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi Permanent Black 2003Description: xix, 306p., hbISBN:

9788178240473

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

294.5 KAU

Summary: '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.

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'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.

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