Book chapter
Rām’s Story in Shiva’s City: Public Arenas and Private Patronage
Culture and Power in Banaras, pp.34-61
University of California Press
1989
DOI: 10.2307/jj.8085340.9
Abstract
The setting is a mandap, a brightly canopied enclosure for festive observances, erected in a small square in the heart of Banaras (see fig. 2). The ground within is spread with cotton rugs on which hundreds of people are seated, men and women on opposite sides of a central aisle. At the far end of the enclosure stands a lofty dais draped with rich brocades, on which an oversized book, covered with flowers, is enshrined on an ornate stand. A dignified looking man, immaculately clad in a crisply pleated dhoti and silk kurtā, reverences and then mounts the dais, whereupon
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Rām’s Story in Shiva’s City: Public Arenas and Private Patronage
- Creators
- Philip Lutgendorf
- Contributors
- Sandria B. Freitag (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Culture and Power in Banaras, pp.34-61
- DOI
- 10.2307/jj.8085340.9
- Publisher
- University of California Press; Berkeley
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 1989
- Academic Unit
- Asian and Slavic Languages and Literatures
- Record Identifier
- 9984511957402771
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