Performative Politics and the Cultures of Hinduism
Public Uses of Religion in Western India
By (author) Raminder Kaur
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Publication date:
05 February 2005Length of book:
328 pagesPublisher
Anthem PressDimensions:
234x155mm6x9"
ISBN-13: 9781843311386
'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.
'This work contains much of valuable interest particularly regarding the very recent patterns of the Ganapati utsava.' —Frank F. Conlon