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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Maclean, Kama, 1968- Pilgrimage and power. New York : Oxford University Press, 2008 (DLC) 2007039456 (OCoLC)173299432 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Kama Maclean; Oxford University Press. |
ISBN: | 9780199713356 0199713359 |
OCLC Number: | 535505694 |
Description: | 1 online resource (352 pages) illustrations |
Contents: | The power of discourse, representations of the Kumbh Mela, c. 1760-2004 -- Sovereign spaces Allahabad Fort and the Sangam, 1765-1860 -- Mela as resistance: the modern beginnings of the ancient Kumbh in Allahabad, 1857-1870 -- Proclamation, pilgrimage, and politics religion as a contestable space, 1860-1900-- Competing for minds and at the Mela organisation, nationalism, and propaganda, 1906-1942 -- The Sarkari Mela : the Allahabad Kumbh, 1954. |
Responsibility: | By Kama Maclean. |
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Kama Maclean provides a nuanced and, at times, revolutionary understanding of what must be regarded as one of the most important periodic gatherings of humanity not just in India, but in the world. As such, she reveals an enormous amount about the modern history of Hinduism. But in the process she shines new light on the social and cultural history of British imperialism and Indian nationalism. Her book is the result of painstaking, careful research; she draws on theinsights of a wide range of historians, from C.A. Bayly to Dipesh Chakrabarty, but her voice remains clearly her own. * William R. Pinch, Professor of History, Wesleyan University * Read more...

