Main entry:

Desai, Madhuri (Madhuri Shrikant), author.

Title & Author:

Banaras reconstructed : architecture and sacred space in a Hindu holy city / Madhuri Desai.

Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2017]

Description:

x, 292 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Series:

Global South Asia

Notes:
Outgrowth of the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of California, Berkeley, 2008) under the title: Resurrecting Banaras : urban space, architecture and religious boundaries.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ch. One Authenticity and Pilgrimage -- ch. Two Palimpsests and Authority -- ch. Three Expansion and Invention -- ch. Four Spectacle and Ritual -- ch. Five Order and Antiquity -- ch. Six Visions and Embellishments. Conclusion: Banaras revisited.

Summary:

Between the late sixteenth and early twentieth centuries, Banaras, the iconic Hindu center in northern India that is often described as the oldest living city in the world, was reconstructed materially as well as imaginatively, and embellished with temples, monasteries, mansions, and ghats (riverfront fortress-palaces). Banaras's refurbished sacred landscape became the subject of pilgrimage maps and its spectacular riverfront was depicted in panoramas and described in travelogues. Madhuri Desai examines the confluences, as well as the tensions, that have shaped this complex and remarkable city. In so doing, she raises issues central to historical as well as contemporary Indian identity and delves into larger questions about religious urban environments in South Asia.

ISBN:

9780295741604 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
0295741600 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9780295741994 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0295741996 (paperback ; alkaline paper)

Subject:

Hindu architecture India Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Sacred space India Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Architecture and society India Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Architecture hindoue Inde Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Lieux sacrés Inde Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Architecture et société Inde Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Architecture and society.
Buildings.
Hindu architecture.
Sacred space.
Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh, India) Buildings, structures, etc.
India Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)

Form/genre:

Theses.

Added entries:

Global South Asia.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 299504
Call No.: BIB 245625
Status: Available